From: jeff@... (Jeff Schilling)
Date: 2003-01-08T11:13:21+09:00
Subject: XML Namespaces in sgml-parser

I've been working on extending the sgml-parser included with the std
windows distribution and have run into several issues.

1. Tags with xml namespace qualifiers would get split thusly
<dc:language> would end up with tag="dc" with an attribute of
"language"

2. Attributes cannot contain namespace qualifiers - e.g. <l:link
l:rel=\"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/proposed/link/#permalink>
would end up as [{l => ""}, {rel=>"http....."}]

3. directives such as <![CDATA[ were not being recognized as "Special"

Here's my diffs:  all three items are working for me now.

17c17
<   Special = /<![^<>]*>/
---
>   Special = /<!\[/
20,21c20,21
<   Tagfind = /[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9.-]*/
<   Attrfind = Regexp.compile('[\s,]*([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z_0-9.-]*)' +
---
>   Tagfind = /[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9.-:]*/
>   Attrfind = Regexp.compile('[\s,]*([a-zA-Z_][-:.a-zA-Z_0-9]*)' +


Are these changes perceived as valuable?  Any comments, gotchas?

-Jeff