Martin v. Loewis, 16.05.2010 09:07:
the approach that the OP is apparently trying to follow is
clearly misguided.
I completely agree. However, I recommend that we let him find out on his
own. I suspect he has some idiomatic usage of XML, perhaps with all
namespace prefixes defined in the root element. He'll find out that his
approach is flawed in the general case when he encounters such a case.
It's probably pointless trying to convince him in the abstract.
Probably, yes. It's just that I prefer it if broken code doesn't get
written in the first place, rather than having to fix it later on, which in
this case even seems to imply breaking a user visible feature. But you're
right, let's leave the decision to the OP.
Stefan
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