RE: IBM-DM-019: No need for orphan namespace nodes

XSLT creates namespace nodes in the same way as it creates attribute
nodes, and disallowing orphaned namespace nodes would introduce
considerable complexity into the XSLT processing model.
 
Michael Kay

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Subject: IBM-DM-019: No need for orphan namespace nodes



Data Model Section 6.4.1 (Namespace Nodes--Overview): This section
states that the data model permits namespace nodes without parents
(parent property may be empty). This should be changed. There is no
longer a namespace node constructor in XQuery. There is no way to create
a namespace node independently of an element node, and no reason why the
data model should permit this.