RE: casting NOTATION to string

> David:
> One of the consequences of adopting the 'triples'  proposal 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-query-wg/2004Jun/0
> 090.html  is that QNames as well as NOTATION can be cast to 
> xs:string and vice-versa.

With caveats on the "vice-versa". String-to-QName and String-to-NOTATION is
now allowed (using the constructor syntax) only if the string is known
statically. QName-to-string and NOTATION-to-string are now always allowed,
and never fail.

Michael Kay


> Thus, the situation in the F&O is clear and resolved.  The 
> status in the XQuery/Xpath documents may need to be
> chacked and updated.
> 
> All the best, Ashok
> 
> 
> 

Received on Friday, 3 September 2004 08:08:40 UTC