Re: Value space of QName

James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> writes:

> Part 2 describes the value space of QName as "The value space of QName
> is the set of tuples {namespace name, local part}, where namespace name
> is a uriReference and local part is an NCName".  This is not quite
> right: a QName need not have a prefix; in such a case, the namespace
> name part may be missing.

We should indeed clarify---in most places we talk about QNames, we
make clear that an 'absent' value for namespace URI signals the
unqualified case.

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