Re: PROV-ISSUE-496: ivan's feedback on prov-n LC [prov-n]

Luc,

I am happy with the other changes, but I still have question on the namespace issue. See below


On Oct 16, 2012, at 07:40 , Luc Moreau wrote:
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>> - 3.4.7, Namespace declaration:
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>>    - minor buglet: in the bulleted item either both lines should begin with capital 'T' or none of the two
>>    - I do not understand this sentence:
>> 	"the scope of a namespace declaration directly occurring in a toplevel
>>          bundle is the toplevel bundle itself, except and namedBundle it may contain".
>>     I presume what it wants to say is that a namespace declaration in a named bundle has priority over the namespace declaration in the top level bundle and somehow the editing went wrong…
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> I have fixed the typo and edited the scoping rule. Hopefully, this clarifies this issue.
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first of all, exclunding -> excluding

But just to be clear about the intention. The way I understand the current sentence:

[[[
The scope of a namespace declaration directly occurring in a document is the document itself, exclunding the bundles it may contain
]]]

is that, in case of 

document
  prefix a <http:...>
  ...
  bundle abcde
    ... a:something ...
  endBundle
endDocument

the usage of 'a:something' is illegal. I am a bit surprised by this definition; usually (eg, in the trig-in-preparation) the prefix declarations given on the top are valid for the whole document, but you may have had good reasons for this restrictions that was discussed before I joined the group. Ie, I will not object to that, but just wanted to be sure that we do have the same understanding.

Ivan




> Regards,
> Luc
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