Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Jonathan Eisenzopf <eisen@pobox.com> wrote:

> I think people are placing too much emphasis on namespaces and
> RDF. When working with a parser, whether it's a regex parser or
> an XML parser w/out NS support, dealing with a namespace is only
> a matter of looking for a string followed by a colon in the
> element name. If you don't care about the namespace, you can
> discard it. If you do, you can then reference that element to its
> namespace somewhere in an associative array, struct, or object.

I don't see how I can since:

1) the namespace prefix can be anything
2) the namespace prefix can be defined anywhere, in one of multiple ways

It'd be great if you could show me a regexp that dealt with namespaces.

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