Re: XPath Data Model proposal

At 03:41 PM 6/5/2003 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > At any rate, the current mappings do not support *any* W3C XML-Schema
> > semantics in the Infoset-only mapping. I do think this is a slippery 
> slope,
> > and I wouldn't support it. In effect, both you and Elliotte are asking 
> that
> > we support the syntax of XML 1.x, but change the semantics by adding some
> > pieces that each of you like.
>
>That's pretty much what Namespaces does, too: certain attributes get magic
>values that effect the understandings about other attributes and elements.

Yes - but Namespaces is part of XML, not something interposed between XML 
and the query language.

Jonathan 

Received on Thursday, 5 June 2003 16:09:32 UTC