Joseph,
I'll try to put up some code to show what is going on...
Michel.
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> Subject: RE: Namespaces are ignored in SerializerToXML...
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> >3?) I still wonder about namespaces as attributes, Xalan does it
> that way,
> >Xerces (1.4.2) does not...
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> I believe the Xerces does both -- it passes the namespace declarations as
> attributes _and_ issues the start/end prefix mapping events. (We rely on
> those attributes when building the DTM model, in fact, so I know we're
> receiving them.)
>
> Xalan's output should also be issuing both, in case the next stage of
> processing wants to use the prefix events. If we aren't, that might indeed
> be a bug.
>
> (On the other hand, generating the prefix events imposes some additional
> performance overhead; every attribute has to be checked to see if it was a
> namespace declaration, and if so reported both ways. I'm tempted
> to suggest
> that if we do produce prefix events, we provide a mode which suppresses
> them, so folks who know they aren't going to use them can optimize them
> away. Serialization is already slower than we want it to be.)
>
> Interesting little issue.
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