Re: [ssax-sxml] Serialization of SXML, Interpreting Namespaces

[Kirill L. <lis...@ac...>]

Hello!

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 Ben...@ao... wrote:

> Below I describe how I plan to handle namespaces. But one preliminary: 
> while in the SXML specification (2.1), one can write 
>    (html:a (@ (html:href "url")) 
>            (*namespaces* (html "http://w3c/schemas/html"))
>            "a link")
> it seems in the latest version of SXML tools that the preferred way now 
> is to embed the *namespaces* node in an auxillary node. Am I correct to 
> assume that the SXML spec is evolving in this direction?
> 
Yes, you are right. 
And even more: prefered location for *namespaces* nodes in SXML tree 
is aux-list of *TOP* node.

> 1. Where a *namespaces* node is attached to a *top* node, these 
> namespace-prefix declarations are serialized as part of the single 
> XML element which is a child of *top*. cur-ns-env is updated with these 
> bindings.
If a document has no XML prefix re-definitions, then all *namespaces*
nodes may be listed in *TOP*'s aux-list.
Thus, most of real life (S)XML documents may be represented this way.

Best regards, 
         Kirill.