XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Ed Davies <edavies AT nildram.co.uk>]

peter murray-rust wrote:
> ....
> Recent discussion suggests that namespaced attribute and content 
> values are considered harmful. It is possible to construct a system 
> which does the same independently of XML machinery but it is more 
> work and I thought I was gaining something from XML that helped.
> ....

Norman Walsh has some interesting suggestions for "XML 2.0" relevant
to this subject:

  http://norman.walsh.name/2004/11/10/xml20

He'd allow something like:

 <scalar xmlns:foo="http://foo"; dictRef="<:foo:abc>">1.23</scalar>

so that the parser could unambiguously recognise the QName in the
attribute value.  Since it's only Norm's idea it's not much use
right now but it seems to me to be a plausible fix to a real
problem.

Ed.