[Bug 4523] Default Unprefixed Namespace Handling is Problematic

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4523





------- Comment #1 from mike@saxonica.com  2007-05-03 06:24 -------
I agree that there's a usability problem here. Sometimes you do need to
generate output in a default namespace, for example because there's a DTD that
requires this for validity, or because there's some other bit of software at
the receiving end that isn't 100% namespace-aware.

I think we should put this use case on the requirements list for XQuery 1.1.
Personally I think the right answer is along the lines we adopted in XSLT 2.0:
allow a different default namespace for element names in path expressions and
element names in constructors.

Received on Thursday, 3 May 2007 06:24:23 UTC