Re: [Sax-devel] qualified name argument to startElement

[<mik...@ho...>]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Elliotte Harold wrote:

> Currently in ContentHandler, the JavaDoc for startElement() says,
>
> the qualified name is required when the namespace-prefixes property is
> true, and is optional when the namespace-prefixes property is false (the
> default).
>
> I would like to change this to say, "the qualified name is always
> required." That is, regardless of how the features are set. In practice,
> this is how *all* SAX parsers written in Java behave, and much client
> code is written under the assumption that this is true.

I have a problem with this.

I have an application which uses the SAX ContentHandler interface as a
general pipeline for XML data. The application (which is not a parser)
invokes methods on a ContentHandler, and sometimes the XML data is
programmatically generated, i.e. not originating from XML source. In that
case there are no prefixes and no qualified names (only namespace URI:s
and local names), and it would be a PITA to have to generate
namespace prefixes which would not be used anyway.