- From: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 15:42:04 +0100 (BST)
- To: connolly@w3.org
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
> Q: what's the value of the XPath namespace-uri() function > with <aDoc> as the current node?? > > A: http://example.com/dir1/foo per the XPath and URI specs, But that keeps all the bad features of the "make absolute" option together with the added complication of dealing with undefined behaviour. Having the effective name of an element (whether for the purposes of the unique attribute text in the namespace rec, or for general xpath matching, as here) depend on the current base URI is just bad in principle. If you are going to keep xpath with this broken behaviour, you may as well change namespaces to match, having them inconsistent has no advantages at all. David
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