Hi John,
> The trouble with that is that XML rnamespaces are lexically scoped, like > Scheme > local variables. It is perfectly valid to map a prefix to more than one > URL, > as long as the namespace declarations are in either disjoint or nested > elements. So you don't know what the absolute name of the element > or attribute is from just the prefix and the local part. > > Furthermore, it is also legal to define more than one prefix for > the same URL, in which case names using either prefix are normally > treated as equivalent (however, you can't have elements like > <a:foo>...</b:foo> > even if a and b map to the same namespace). > > * Is the value for “namespaces” that’s passed in to the >> FINISH-ELEMENT procedure always the same? >> >> * Will the second return value of the final call to FINISH-ELEMENT >> really always be the complete list of *all* namespaces that have been >> encountered? >> > > Definitely not, only the namespaces that are currently in scope. Thanks for the clarifications! In that case we coud have FINISH-ELEMENT add all namespace declarations that are in scope to the current node that is about to be returned. It would be a little verbose, but more correct. What do you think? -- Ricardo
