[Swift-devel] documenting sites.xml

[Mihael Hategan]

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 22:31 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 
> > But I'm not sure I agree with the last part of what you say. Ambiguities 
> > cause errors (as in Java).
> 
> this bit? :

Oh, I see. What you're saying is that an element without a namespace
will not default to a certain namespace even if there are no ambiguities
in that choice. Which I don't know exactly about XML, but in Karajan
that default will happen.

> 
> >> defining an element in a different namespace can cause a non-labelled 
> >> element to mean something different in karajan, which doesn't happen in 
> >> XML Namespaces.
> 
> There aren't ambiguities in XML namespace handling there. If a namespace 
> prefix is used without being mapped somewhere (either the very small set 
> of default mappings, or explicitly in an enclosing element) then the 
> document is not valid.

Right.

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