- From: Don Chamberlin <chamberl@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:49:49 -0800
- To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Received on Wednesday, 11 February 2004 18:50:07 UTC
(IBM-XQ-004) In the XQuery document, there should be no reference to "namespace nodes". Since XQuery does not support the namespace axis, there is no way for an expression to return a namespace node. All references to namespace nodes should be replaced by references to the "in-scope namespaces" of an element, a term that is already widely used in both the Data Model and the Functions and Operators documents. Nodes are needed only to preserve identity and to represent a position on an axis. Since namespace-prefix-bindings in XQuery have neither identity nor position, there is no need in XQuery for the concept of a "namespace node". See IBM-DM-031 for a related Data Model comment, but note that this proposal can be adopted independently of IBM-DM-031 ( http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2004Feb/0207.html) --Don Chamberlin
Received on Wednesday, 11 February 2004 18:50:07 UTC