- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:23:34 +0000
- To: Florent Georges <fgeorges@fgeorges.org>
- Cc: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>, public-xml-processing-model-comments@w3.org
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Florent Georges writes:
> 2009/12/1 Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>
>> Presumably you mean
>
>> <p:rename match="/*" new-name="foo" new-namespace="http://..."/>
>
> I can't speak about what Norm has meant, but in your above
> instruction, the processor does not know which prefix to bind to the
> namespace URI. If you make new-name value a lexical QName, the
> processor have all the three pieces: the prefix, the namespace URI and
> the local name.
>
> I think this is exactly the same context than with xsl:element's
> @name and @namespace <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#xsl-element>.
Hmmm. I had forgotten about that precedent, if indeed I had ever
noticed it. I am not sure it's a good one to follow -- it means
_inter alia_ that the value of the name attribute does not really have
type QName, because that type _requires_ there to be a namespace
declaration in scope. . .
I'm inclined to think this is a mistake in the XSLT specs (which I
realise can't now be fixed, as it goes back to XSLT 1.0).
ht
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