Re: C++ version of regexprep.cc

[Bill Denney]

On Thu, 4 May 2006, Andy Adler wrote:

> Note that this is a very non standard way to parse XML.
>
> The colon is a name space designator. Consider thse documents
>
>    <doc xmlns:ABC="http://my.xml.name.space";>
>      <ABC:de value="1"/>
>    </doc>
>
> and
>
>    <doc xmlns:XYZ="http://my.xml.name.space";>
>      <XYZ:de value="1"/>
>    </doc>
>
> The XML infoset spec requires that these documents be
> considered to be EXACTLY equivalent.  This means that
> any XML processing application which treats these
> documents differently is techically NOT VALID.
>
> Do we want octave XML parsers to correctly deal with
> these kinds of issues.

I personally think that elements should have a namespace associated 
with it only if it's different than the parent.  Then it is simple to 
climb the tree to see your particular namespace.

Bill

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