- From: Xan Gregg <xan.gregg@jmp.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:57:29 -0500
- To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Dear colleagues, We thank you for incorporating our comments on your previous draft into your latest draft (2003-11-12). This batch of comments pertains to the 2003-11-12 XSLT 2.0 Working Draft. COMMENT 1 of 2 : XMLSchema-datatypes namespace URI In section 3.2 "Reserved Namespaces", the XMLSchema-datatypes URI is listed with the following comment: [Definition: The schema datatypes namespace http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes is used as defined in [XML Schema]]. In a stylesheet this namespace may be used to refer to built-in schema datatypes and to the constructor functions associated with those datatypes: in these respects it is equivalent to the schema namespace. Please note that the Schema WG has an open issue, R-222 [1], on the topic of the alternate datatypes namespace, which we consider to be problematic. We have not reached consensus among the following options: - declare the types in the datatypes namespace as a magic aliases, violating the principle of at most one name per component - define the types in the datatypes namespace as vacuous restrictions of the corresponding types in the schema namespace, which means, for instance, that xdt:integer is not derived from xdt:decimal - deprecate the datatypes namespace We apologize for this issue being unresolved; that being the state, the safest course of action would be for XSLT to avoid using the datatypes namespace. Xan Gregg, on behalf of the XML Schema Working Group [1] XML Schema Issues List (version with R-222 not yet published to web site) http://www.w3.org/2001/05/xmlschema-rec-comments
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