[jdom-interest] prefixes in attribute values or element content(was the hashcode thread)

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 2:19 PM -0500 6/2/01, philip.nelson at omniresources.com wrote:
>I wanted to move this discussion to a different thread.  Elliotte is
>correct, this is worrysome.  These issues would affect JDOM if you tried to
>write a processor for these types of documents.  So for discussion if
>anybody is interested.....
>
>There are increasing cases where a prefix will be used out of context of the
>uri.
>

NO! I don't believe such cases exist. There is always a context!  I'm 
not familiar with WSDL but let's look at the other two. I'll show you 
exactly what the context is and what URI it assigns:

>XSLT
>	<some-xsl-element xmlns:foo="http://foo.org/">
>		<value-of select="foo/bar/foo:baz"/>
>	</some-xsl-element>
>

In this case the value-of element is inside the some-xsl-element. It 
is in the control of the context of that element. The foo prefix is 
mapped to the URI http://foo.org/

>
>XML Schema
>	<anElement type="xsd:float" />
>

In this case this would actually appear inside a larger schema like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema"

>

   <xsd:Element type="xsd:float" />

</xsd:schema>

The context is provided by the root element. It bhinds the prefix xsd 
to the namespace URI http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema.

There is no such thing as a namespace prefix out of context in a 
namespace well-formed XML document. We long ago decided that 
non-namespace well-formed documents were out of scope for JDOM.

We do need some straight-forward way of getting the URL assigned to a 
namespace prefix, but such a question can only be answered in the 
context of a particular element.
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