Re: Default namespaces in XPath

"Toman_Vojtech@emc.com" <Toman_Vojtech@emc.com> writes:
> 1. The default namespace is "http://foo.com",
> 2. the default namespace is included in the set of in-scope namespaces of the processor XPath context (section 2.6.1.1),
> 3. the local function name contains() resolves to {http://foo.com}contains(), which of course does not exist
> 4. ... and the XPath expression fails

Like XSLT, the default namepace doesn't apply to names without a colon
in them. I expect we should be more explicit that that includes not
only element names, but also function names.

We don't provide a mechanism for changing the default function
namespace, but I'm not sure it's really important enough in our spec.

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                                          norm

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