Re: Making SimpleXML more useful

On 29.04.2011, at 09:44, Tom Samplonius wrote: > >> While I think this would make SimpleXML more stupid, not less, as it >> seems >> braindead to me to allow users to create documents ambiguously and/or >> which >> essentially violate the XML namespace spec, I think the way to do > > Allowing child elements to be unqualified is neither braindead or ambiguous. All standalone > XML documents are ambiguous, because XML is just structured information without a definition of the > structure (let alone the semantics of the information). XMLSchemas precisely define the structure, > including allowable elements, child elements, quantities of elements and data types. And if that > schema includes the attribute 'elementFormDefault="unqualified"', then child > elements have to be unqualified. And that is certainly strictly specified, unlike a schemaless XML. The elementFormDefault="qualified" attribute simply acts as a shortcut in Schemas so that you don't have to use form="qualified" on every element declaration. It makes no difference to instance documents which method you use. Again, xmlns="" puts an element in no namespace. That already works in SimpleXML. There is no issue here that needs fixing. David

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