[XML-SIG] expat namespace_separator in Python 2.1

Thomas B. Passin tpassin@home.com
Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:04:52 -0400


James Tauber said -

> The key issue that eikeon forgot to mention is that this is for RDF where
> namespaceURI+localName are concatenated to form property URIs. Without the
> ability to use '' we have to do a split+join on every element coming back
> from expat.
>
Aren't those two parts usually joined with a "#" symbol?  Ayway, if you did
go to a split/join, I bet it wouldn't slow you down hardly at all, since the
rest of the RDF parsing must take a lot more time.

Cheers,

Tom P