[XML-SIG] SAX and namespaces

[James K. Tauber]

> David Megginson (the coordinator of the SAX development) has just
> started a discussion on xml-dev on how SAX should support namespaces.
> As far as I can guess (I'm not a W3C member or invited expert) this
> effort has been started because the W3C considers namespaces more and
> more important, and so they become more important for SAX as well.

Other W3C efforts that use XML (such as RDF) have been requesting closure on
namespaces ASAP because they view it as necessary for their own work.

James

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