& XSLT On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:59:05AM +0200, Robin Berjon wrote:
>  Dominic Mitchell wrote:
>  >What do you think it should do?  I reckon:
>  >
>  >* Look at LocalName first and then fall back to Name if it's not present 
>  >(ignoring the prefix on Name).
>  >
>  >* Look at Prefix first and if not present, divine it from Name.
>  
>  Yes, and it should auto-generate prefixes when none are provided (even 
>  if it makes things look ugly).
>  
>  Ideally, this sort of functionality which turns a non-conformant stream 
>  into a conformant one should be abstracted into a separate module (a 
>  filter) so that other pieces of the SAX infrastructure could reuse it. 
>  XML::SAX::Writer would then return that filter instead of itself from 
>  new() (that's already what it does with another filter). This prevents 
>  everyone from reinventing this wheel, no matter how simple it may seem 
>  to be.

What would a distribution be called?  XML::SAX::Normalizer?

>  >I've just been looking at this part of Genx recently in an attempt to 
>  >understand quite how it works (I'm attempting a Java rewrite in order to 
>  >bone up on my java skills).  I'll have to say that I'm still figuring 
>  >out what's going on in there.  It's certainly given me new respect for 
>  >the complexity of namespaces.  :-)
>  
>  Rule 0 is if you think namespaces are complex, you're very, very 
>  probably reading too much into them.
>  
>  That being said, *writing* XML correctly is a more complex task than 
>  people often realize. It's not at all intractable, but there's a bunch 
>  of small catches that will get you at some point. Most XML writers have 
>  some parts that are hard to understand at first but make sense if you 
>  walk them through writing out something with a debugger. When they don't 
>  have slightly strange bits, they'll write incorrect XML ;)

Yes, this is what I'm going on about.  But thankfully,  Tim Bray
understood it all before me and I'm just going over his code.  ;-)

-Dom
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