& XSLT On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:23:02PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  
>  what???s the skinny on this? I see the following elements available
>  when emitting, say a start_element event:
>  
>      Name
>      LocalName
>      Prefix
>      NamespaceURI
>  
>  Now, my question is, which of this data is minimally required
>  according to the spec?
>  
>  F.ex., XML:SAX::Writer requires Name, Prefix and NamespaceURI to
>  work, at minimum, and seems to ignore LocalName. OTOH
>  XML::Genx::SAXWriter seems to ignore Name altogether. Etc etc.

XML::Genx::SAXWriter was an experiment in how easy it would be to plumb
together SAX and Genx.  I haven't checked to see how (non!) conformant
it is with the SAX spec.

That said, if you find it's doing something non-compliant (or just plain
odd), do tell me and I'll try to fix it.

>  It really makes me wonder though. Why should I have to specify a
>  Name *and* a Prefix? Ideally I???d like to specify only a LocalName
>  and a NamespaceURI, and the only Prefix I care to control
>  directly is the empty prefix for the default namespace. All other
>  management should be done by the serialiser on my behalf.
>  
>  Is that a reasonably expectation?

I think it's reasonable.  But I also think it's reasonable to demand a
particular prefix for a namespace.  There's enough software out there
that thinks the prefix *is* the namespace to warrant this.

-Dom
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