- From: Henry S. Thompson <[email protected]>
- Date: 17 Oct 2000 10:11:18 +0100
- To: James Clark <[email protected]>
- Cc: XML Schema Comments <[email protected]>
James Clark <[email protected]> writes: > The Namespaces Rec specifies two ways in which QNames can be > interpreted, which differ in how a QName without a prefix are expanded: > > A. For element type names, a prefix-less QName is expanded to have the > namespace name of the default namespace if there is one, and a null > namespace name otherwise > > B. For attribute names, a prefix-less QName is always expanded to have a > null namespace name. Part 1 makes it clear that we take approach (A). I have to say I find the fact that XSLT has taken (B) to be the single most inconvenient aspect of the language, and we've had no other requests to support this behaviour. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/
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