RE: ping on xpath op namespace for RIF

Hi Sandro

I still believe that assigning a namespace to the XQuery/XPath op namespace is a mistake. Also, you should make an official request to the XQuery Working group to get this properly addressed.

You have to understand that the XQuery/XPath working group has very specific reasons to not expose these definitional operators and that your own spec will not be able to be implemented using a normal XPath engine.

Thanks
Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Sandro Hawke [mailto:sandro@w3.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:41 AM
To: Michael Rys; Jonathan Robie; David Carlisle; Jos de Bruijn
Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Subject: ping on xpath op namespace for RIF


Back on March 5, you asked some difficult questions in response to my
earlier questions about an xpath op namespace [1].  Since I didn't have
good answers to your questions, I asked someone else from RIF to help,
and Jos de Bruijn kindly did, on March 28 [2].  I understand things get
busy, but we expect to proceed to Last Call with this in a matter of
weeks.  At this point, I expect we'll proceed using
"http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-operators" as a namespace for the xpath
operators.  Your alternative design approaches, while probably viable,
do not appear to meet our needs as well as simply picking a namespace
name.

       -- Sandro


[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2008Mar/0021.html
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2008Mar/0090.html