[Sax-devel] Re: [Sax-users] Misleading sentence on project page

[David B. <da...@pa...>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> Here's another issue: what is a local name and where is it defined? 
> Namespaces in XML does not use the term "local name" even once. Instead 
> it uses the term "local part".

I noticed that too.  Modulo the processing that's not required,
think of "local name == local part".  Creating new terminology
wasn't a goal, though you'll see a remnant of some in a few parts
of SAX2 javadoc (like "raw name" instead of "qName").


> The first time I find it defined is in the Infoset spec: 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/#infoitem.element
> 
> The infoset does not provide a qualified name property for elements or 
> attributes. In the Infoset, all elements and attributes, namespace 
> qualified or not, have local names.

On the other hand, the infoset is "not defined" for documents that
aren't namespace-conformant (and "does not attempt to be exhaustive").
Nor does any W3C specification cover the error handling required for
such documents.

And the infoset _does_ identify the prefix, which is extracted from
the qName property.

- Dave