RE: [F&O] Casting to xs:NOTATION, xs:QName not clarified

Hello,

I am sorry to repeat myself, but I did not 
receive a satisfying answer the last time.

According to Ashok's mail from 5 Nov 2004 [1]
and from 17 Jan 2005 [2] is it "possible to 
construct xs:QName and xs:NOTATION from string 
literals"

Nevertheless the casting table in the F&O spec [3]
prohibits the cast from xs:string to xs:QName
and xs:NOTATION. Michael Rys pointed out that
the table applies to both constructors and
casts [4].

My question is if this is
(1) an error in the spec, i.e. the casting table
    needs to be corrected?
or
(2) we indeed can construct xs:QName and 
    xs:NOTATION from xs:string but cannot cast it?


Regards,
Frank

URLS:
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2004Nov/0019.
html
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2005Jan/0023.
html
[3] http://w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#casting-from-primitive-to-primitive
[4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2005Jan/0020.
html



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Received on Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:01:26 UTC