- From: Kay, Michael <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 23:45:57 +0100
- To: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@datadirect-technologies.com>, Michael Rys <mrys@microsoft.com>, Caroline Rioux <crioux@decisionsoft.com>
- Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org
> The xs: prefix is predefined, bound to > "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema", > so there is no need to > bind anything to xs. I'm trying to remember if we > outlawed redefining this prefix - I think not, but I also > asked the WG the > question, and I will reply here if I find out that I was wrong. > > So under the assumption that you actually can redefine this > prefix, if you > do not import the schema, these types will not be predefined, > and you will > get a type error, since the system does not know what types you are > referring to. > > Jonathan > That answer is correct for XQuery. I don't recall whether the original question was about XPath or XQuery. In XPath, all namespace prefixes except "xml" have to be defined explicitly. Michael Kay
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