RE: Namespace well-formed external parsed entities?

Henry,

I'm not sure how your message relates to my quoted statement.

I know external entities don't need to contain their own
namespace declarations.  That was the point of the second
part of the disjunction in my statement.

I was suggesting that the proposed query/xslt function 
could define some way to pass in-scope namespace declarations 
as part of the function call--in some fashion perhaps analogous
to how the xmlns() xpointer scheme is used to pass such when 
processing an element() xpointer--then that could address
the "prefix declared" nammespace constraint.

The only other issue Norm mentioned was that the namespace
spec talks about "documents" not "external entities", but
that seems like something fairly easily addressed by some
weasel words.

paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry S. Thompson [mailto:ht@inf.ed.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, 2011 October 19 2:36
> To: Grosso, Paul
> Cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Namespace well-formed external parsed entities?
> 
> Grosso, Paul writes:
> 
> > the namespace declaration must be in the entity itself or can
> > be "inherited" from the "load environment" (in a fashion somewhat
> > similar to what the XPointer xmlns() scheme allows one to do
> > for xpointers).
> 
> I see nothing in the XML spec. which suggests that external entities
> have to be self-contained.  In particular, as far as I can see the
> following is entirely OK:
> 
> foo.xml:
> <!DOCTYPE foo [
> <!ENTITY a SYSTEM "a.ent">
> <!ENTITY foo "foo">
> ]>
> <foo>&a;</foo>
> 
> a.ent:
> <a>&foo;</a>
> 
> If that's true, then by analogy the following is also OK
> 
> foo.xml:
> <!DOCTYPE foo [
> <!ENTITY a SYSTEM "a.ent">
> <!ENTITY foo "foo">
> ]>
> <foo xmlns:p="p">&a;</foo>
> 
> a.ent:
> <a><p:b/></a>
> 
> But, this raises the question of what the point of the proposed
> function is -- if its goal is to yield a (sequence of) document nodes,
> then either
> 
>  a) Not all XML-usable/XML-namespace-usable* external entities can be
>     loaded;
> or
> 
>  b) Namespace fixup may be required, presumably using XQuery-defined
>     namespaces which are in scope.
> 
> *A 'document' is XML(-namespace)-usable if there exist well-formed XML
> documents which (sc. successfully) include it as an external entity.
> 
> ht
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