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Re: xml:id versus xmlid

From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:23:25 -0400
Message-ID: <426E5CED.3030107@metalab.unc.edu>
To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
CC: public-xml-id@w3.org

Norman Walsh wrote:

> I think it follows from "The prefix xml is by definition bound to the
> namespace name http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace." in the namespaces
> recommendation.

It's quite clear from the context of that statement that it's referring 
to bindings in XML documents. It has nothing to say about non-XML 
contexts such as XPath expressions and Java libraries.

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