& XSLT A. Pagaltzis wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> whatâ??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?
>   
> 

My reading of the spec is that drivers are required to provide all of 
these properties. Moreover, the properties must be consistent with 
*_prefix_mapping events. I would like to provide a test suite for Perl 
SAX compliant drivers soon.

Serializes get the full information and they can work with it in a any 
sensible way they like. They can, for example, take the Name and Prefix 
properties as recommended values and change them without changing the 
infoset.

> It really makes me wonder though. Why should I have to specify a
> Name *and* a Prefix? 
> 

I agree. There should be a way to express that you have no preferences 
about a prefix. In this event, you could be able set both Prefix and 
Name to undef. Would this work for most of you?

Petr


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Petr Cimprich
Ginger Alliance
www.gingerall.com

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