Re: [Sax-devel] startPrefixMapping for xmlns?

[Elliotte R. H. <el...@me...>]

At 2:51 PM -0400 4/25/04, Karl Waclawek wrote:

>AFAIK declaring xmlns would be a well-formedness error (but not for xml),
>so it seems unnecessary to state the above.


It is a well-formedness error, but this event indicates the start of 
a prefix mapping, not necessarily an xmlns:xmlns attribute. Under 
Namespaces 1.1, the prefix mapping would begin with the root element, 
just like any namespaces declared on the root element.
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