Re: [Caml-list] xmlm and names(paces)

[Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>]

Bünzli Daniel wrote:
> Le 6 févr. 08 à 22:52, Alain Frisch a écrit :
>> It is also a good idea to be able to parse XML documents that conform
>> to the XML spec but not the XML Namespaces spec.
> 
> But don't you automatically get that ?
> 
> A document that has no xmlns namespace declarations and no prefixes if 
> parsed according to the xmlns spec will result in names with empty 
> namespace names.

The following documents are well-formed w.r.t. the XML spec:

<a::::x/>   (syntactically invalid QName w.r.t. XML Namespaces)

<a:x/>   (unbound prefix)

>> type name = string * [`N of string * string|`U of string * string|`X]
> [...]
> 
> Too heavy weight for my taste.

Actually, I agree. What about doing nothing about namespaces?  For the 
event-based API at least, and maybe for the tree-based one as well, it 
doesn't seem too bad to let the client manage it (maybe you can simply 
provide a small module to help manage namespace dictionnaries and 
resolution).

-- Alain