Re: Refactoring xml.el namespace handling

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > Now that I've gotten a good HEAD, here is a fresh diff.
> 
> Thank you.  Here is a counter patch.  The main difference is that it uses
> 'http://foo/bar rather than :http://foo/bar so as to avoid an unnecessary
> (concat ":" foo) and also so that (symbol-name foo) immediately returns
> a usable URL.
> It also cleans up a few elisp things (like replace mapcar->mapc->dolist,
> and (append (list x) y) -> (cons x y), ...).
> Things left:
> - it seems that the new code returns either a TAG (a symbol) or (NS . TAG)
>   where TAG is a string rather than a symbol.  Do I understand this right?
>   Is that done on purpose?  It looks like a bad idea.

I don't know the code, but to me it seems that using strings rather
than symbols (in all places) generally would be preferable, as it
avoids pollution in the name space -- or maybe a local name space is
used here?  Or do symbols get garbage collected like strings do ?

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