From 5d530f0f955dd26d6762087e9f4bfe09f328aaf5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Waclawek Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:21:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Corrected recommended namespace separators - reported in bug #1742315. --- expat/doc/reference.html | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/expat/doc/reference.html b/expat/doc/reference.html index a315870d..c5f6c2c9 100644 --- a/expat/doc/reference.html +++ b/expat/doc/reference.html @@ -917,12 +917,15 @@ XML_ParserCreateNS(const XML_Char *encoding, Constructs a new parser that has namespace processing in effect. Namespace expanded element names and attribute names are returned as a concatenation of the namespace URI, sep, and the local part of the name. This -means that you should pick a character for sep that can't be -part of a legal URI. There is a special case when sep is the null -character '\0': the namespace URI and the local part will be -concatenated without any separator - this is intended to support RDF processors. -It is a programming error to use the null separator with -namespace triplets. +means that you should pick a character for sep that can't be part +of an URI. Since Expat does not check namespace URIs for conformance, the +only safe choice for a namespace separator is a character that is illegal +in XML. For instance, '\xFF' is not legal in UTF-8, and +'\xFFFF' is not legal in UTF-16. There is a special case when +sep is the null character '\0': the namespace URI and +the local part will be concatenated without any separator - this is intended +to support RDF processors. It is a programming error to use the null separator +with namespace triplets. 
 XML_Parser XMLCALL