I agree with Dana. It's confusing and dangerous for XQuery to differ from XML here, especially since people do copy XML into a query and add dynamic expressions. Jonathan Daniela Florescu wrote: > Don, > > > do you mean that you would like XQuery element constructors > > to behave differently (with respect to namespace handling) then XML > > itself ? > > > I think that's dangerous. > > > Best regards, > > Dana > > > On Feb 16, 2004, at 8:43 PM, Don Chamberlin wrote: > > > > (IBM-XQ-021) Section 3.7.4, Namespace Nodes on Constructed Elements: > In the Note in this section, the second paragraph says that an > implementation can choose to assign the default namespace (by > generating a namespace declaration with a null prefix) when > constructing an element. This is a dangerous thing to do. The string > content of the element may contain some names that are intended to be > in no namespace. Unexpectedly reassigning the default namespace would > cause these names in element content to be interpreted incorrectly. I > suggest deleting this paragraph. > > > --Don Chamberlin >Received on Tuesday, 17 February 2004 05:22:42 GMT
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