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Re: justify or remove aliases: base-uri, resolve-uri

From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:35:22 +0100
Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, mozer <xmlizer@gmail.com>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <E64D9B3B-C63A-44B7-807B-5AEF046A57ED@jenitennison.com>
To: public-xml-processing-model-comments@w3.org


On 15 Sep 2008, at 09:54, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> Dan Connolly writes:
>
>> Whether they are aliases of XPath 1.0 or XPath 2.0 functions
>> makes no difference; they're still aliases.
>
> I think perhaps you misunderstood.  There _is no_ XPath 1.0 function
> which has the relevant behaviour.  So we have defined an extension
> function _for XPath 1.0_ whose functionality is defined to be the
> XPath 1.0 equivalent of an XPath 2.0 function.


Perhaps Dan's point is that we should use the XPath 2.0 function  
namespace (http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions) for those functions  
rather than co-opting them into our own namespace.

Jeni
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