XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

SAX Core Features

Synopsis

All SAX parsers should recognize six core features. Of these six, two (http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces and http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes) must be implemented by all conformant processors. The other four are optional and may not be implemented by all parsers:

http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces

When true, this feature indicates that the startElement( ) and endElement( ) methods provide namespace URIs and local names for elements and attributes. When false, the parser provides prefixed element and attribute names to the startElement( ) and endElement( ) methods. If a parser does not provide something it is not required to provide, then that value will be set to the empty string. However, most parsers provide all three (URI, local name, and prefixed name), regardless of the value of this feature. This feature is true by default.

http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes

When true, this feature indicates that xmlns and xmlns:prefix attributes will be included in the attributes list passed to startElement( ). When false, these attributes are omitted. Furthermore, if this feature is true, then the parser will provide the prefixed names for elements and attributes. The default is false unless http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces is false, in which case this feature defaults to true. You can set both http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces and http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes to true to guarantee that local names, ...