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Re: xml:id versus xmlid

From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:53:51 -0400
Message-ID: <426D911F.1030304@metalab.unc.edu>
To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
CC: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org, public-xml-id@w3.org

Norman Walsh wrote:

> | //*/@xml:id when xml: is not bound.
> 
> XPath context/API initialized incorrectly. Bug.

What part of the XPath 1.0 specification justifies this interpretation? 
I can't find it. Does 2.0 clear this up?

> | //*/@foo:id when foo: is bound to the XML Namespace URI.
> 
> XPath context/API initialized incorrectly. Bug.

Ditto. What part of the XPath 1.0 specification says that the foo prefix 
can't be mapped to the XML namespace URI?

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