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Re: [XOM-interest] why set the namespace again?

From: Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
To: Steve Loughran <steve.loughran AT gmail.com>
Cc: xom-interest <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] why set the namespace again?
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:15:27 -0400

Steve Loughran wrote:

Is the assumtion here that because getLocalNamespaceURI(prefix); also
scans the attributes for xmlns declarations, the act of adding the
namespace moves the prefix,namespace declaration into the hash table,
so speeding up later operations?

I don't have time to figure out exactly why that line is necessary this minute, but I do note that when I commented it out about 50 different tests broke, so I suspect it's doing something. :-)

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[XOM-interest] why set the namespace again?, Steve Loughran, 06/06/2006
- Re: [XOM-interest] why set the namespace again?, Elliotte Harold, 06/06/2006