[XML-SIG] SAX Namespaces

[Paul Prescod]

Greg:
> Can somebody enumerate each of the options here so that we can restart the
> discussion?

These are the ones I can keep track of:

#1. def startElement( self, (uri, name), qname, attrs ):
	....

Question 1: what should uri, name and qname get when namespace
processing is off?
Question 2: qname or prefix

#2. def startElement( self, (uri,localname,qname), attrs ):
	....

Same questions

#3. def startElement( self, ((uri, localname), qname), atrs ):
	....

Same questions.

#4. def startElement( self, name, attrs ):
	....

Depending on whether you have turned on namespace processing, "name" is
either "string" or (uri,localname,qname)

Question: qname or prefix

#5. def startElement( self, name, atrs ):
	....

Same description and questions as above.

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At this point, I don't care enough to argue anymore.

I think that #4. is nicely backwards compatible, doesn't put namespaces
stuff in people's faces unless they ask for it and will be a little more
efficient in the common case where SAX is used as a means to an end like
DOM, Pyxie, qp_xml or whatever. I think that having a tuple-format is
even more useful (and efficient) when you are trying to pass attribute
lists around.

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