Re: [syndication] Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

[Jonathan Eisenzopf <eisen@pobox.com>]

Aaron Swartz wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
Ok, I'll to put one together in the next couple of days.

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