RE: well-known namespace prefixes

Excellent! Thanks Don,
Howard
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Don Chamberlin [mailto:chamberl@almaden.ibm.com]
  Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 9:52 AM
  To: Howard Katz
  Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org
  Subject: Re: well-known namespace prefixes



  Hello Howard,
  I've fixed Section 2 (Basics) of the XQuery document to clarify that the
namespace prefixes xs, xsi, etc. are predeclared prefixes in the languages,
not just "used in the document." These prefixes are also listed as
predeclared in Section 4.11 (Namespace Declaration).
  Thanks for your comment,
  --Don Chamberlin



        "Howard Katz" <howardk@fatdog.com>
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        07/27/2004 04:44 PM
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              Subject well-known namespace prefixes








  I don't know if this is making a mountain out of a molehill, but I find
the
  description of the five predefined namespace prefixes in the main XQuery
1.0
  document [1] a bit confusing. In particular, the wording "This document
uses
  the following predefined namespace prefixes" is potentially misleading --
at
  least it was for me the first time I encountered it -- in that the phrase
  "This document uses ..." seems to imply that the prefixes are being used
in
  the specification document for pedagogic purposes only, while in fact the
  prefix-uri associations are normative (ie, they're "well-known" and can be
  used in queries w/out requiring the user to declare them in the prolog
  first).

  I haven't found any other clear, unambigous statement in any of the XQuery
  documents that these five default associations are normative (tho there's
at
  least one related mention in the F&O document [2] for three of them);
  possibly this is a good place to do so. Rather than saying "This document
  uses ...", how about a less amibiguous statement such as, "The following
  predefined namespace prefixes are "well-known" and can be used in queries
  without declaring them explicitly in the prolog" or some such.

  Lastly, just out of curiosity, are these default associations considered
  examples of "statically known namespaces" in the static context [3]?

  Howard

  [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#id-basics

  [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#namespace-prefixes (note that
  "defalt" is misspelled in the text)

  [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#dt-static-namespaces