Re: Insertions

> > data: @xmlns, value+",".
> > xmlns: +"http://example.com/data".
If your output is serialised text, this sidesteps some of the namespace issue.

But if your output is XDM nodes, this should throw well-formed-ness errors as namespace declarations are not attributes, and attribute names starting with [xX][mM][lL] are forbidden (as I understand it).

Perhaps a mark other than '@' for namespace declarations would be an acceptable compromise here?
> But a mechanism that allows for a default namespace binding and no other seems
> pretty limiting and arbitrary to me.

It's only limited to the default namespace binding if colons are disallowed in rule names, right?

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On 3 Mar 2022, 17:51 +0000, Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com>, wrote:
> Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> writes:
> > Some time ago Tom suggested using +"abc" to signal a textual insertion
> > into the serialisation, which we put on a backburner. But I ended up
> > thinking about it today anyway.
>
> It’s nice. On the whole, I think I prefer “^” to “+”, but the bigger
> question, I think, is whether not we should be taking this up now.
>
> I’d much rather get pragmas sorted out and bedded in before we take on
> more new work. I also think this example:
>
> > data: @xmlns, value+",".
> > xmlns: +"http://example.com/data".
>
> will only fuel more debate about qualified names in V1. “There are no
> qualified names in vxml” is a reasonable position, I think. But a
> mechanism that allows for a default namespace binding and no other seems
> pretty limiting and arbitrary to me.
>
> Be seeing you,
> norm
>
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> Norm Tovey-Walsh
> Saxonica