- From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@datadirect-technologies.com>
- Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 13:54:32 -0500
- To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Hi Priscilla, I'm afraid I didn't deliver on this promise for the current publication round, and I've missed the deadline. We've got your clarification on the list for the next round. Sorry, Jonathan >Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 05:13:27 -0500 >To: "Priscilla Walmsley" <priscilla@walmsley.com>, <public-qt-comments@w3.org> >From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@datadirect-technologies.com> >Subject: Re: XQuery 1.0 Overriding prolog default namespaces > >At 11:31 AM 11/5/2002 -0500, Priscilla Walmsley wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>The XQuery 1.0 WD (section 4.1) says that namespace declarations that >>appear in element constructors are added to the in-scope namespaces. >>It's clear what this means for namespace declarations with prefixes. >> >>It's not so clear (at least to me!) what this means for default >>namespace declarations. The definition of "in-scope namespaces" >>appears to specifically be referring to resolving prefixes, and it is >>listed as a separate component of the expression context from the >>"Default namespace for element and type names" and the "Default >>namespace for function names". > >Hi Priscilla, > >I agree that we need to improve the description here, and I think it will >be better in the next publication. The default namespace is intended to be >part of the static context. > >>So, my question is, do default namespace declarations in element >>constructors override these two default namespaces (declared in the >>prolog)? Both of them, or just the element/type one? > >It overrides the element/type default, but not the function default. This >will be clearer in the next publication. > >Jonathan
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