RE: [F&O, May 2] resolve-QName and get-namespace-uri-for-prefix

• From: Ashok Malhotra <ashokma@microsoft.com>
• Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:20:17 -0700
• To: "Michael Brundage" <xquery@attbi.com>, <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <E5B814702B65CB4DA51644580E4853FB09840E8A@red-msg-12.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

Michael:
Thank you for your comment.  The taskforce agrees with you and we will
change the signature as below:

get-namespace-uri-for-prefix(xs:string, element) as xs:string

All the best, Ashok
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Brundage [mailto:xquery@attbi.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 9:24 PM
> To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
> Cc: Ashok Malhotra
> Subject: [F&O, May 2] resolve-QName and get-namespace-uri-for-prefix
> 
> The resolve-QName and get-namespace-uri-for-prefix functions have
> inconsistent signatures for no good reason:
> 
> resolve-QName(xs:string, element) as xs:QName
> get-namespace-uri-for-prefix(element, xs:string) as xs:string
> 
> Both should have the element argument in the same position.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael Brundage
> Writing as
> Author, "XQuery: The XML Query Language" (Addison-Wesley, to appear
2003)
> Co-author, "Professional XML Databases" (Wrox Press, 2000)
> 
> not as
> Technical Lead
> Common Query Runtime/XML Query Processing
> WebData XML Team
> Microsoft
> 

Received on Monday, 21 July 2003 10:20:47 UTC