Agenda request: forking QNames

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I'd like to discuss a number of related topics stimulated by a thread [1]
on public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf regarding namespace declarations, qnames and
related issues.

Here's the latest entry in the thread:

From: Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>
To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org
Thread-Topic: CURIEs, xmlns and bandwidth
Subject: RE: CURIEs, xmlns and bandwidth

Henry wrote:

> Am I right in understanding from your examples that the 
> (main?/only?) reason for not adopting QNames is that you have 
> a requirement to support as-it-were-local-names which don't 
> match the NCName production, e.g. digit strings?

Yes, this is the main reason.

There is, though, a significant bonus resulting from not using 
QNames, in that we then do not have to use the xmlns declaration 
syntax.  This allows us to XInclude the declarations, rather 
than carry them in every headline.

> Are there any _other_ differences between
> whatever-it-is-you're-calling-these-not-QNames and QNames?  

No.

> In particular, could you confirm that they _do_ share with 
> QNames that identity is checked on the expanded form, i.e. the 
> pair of namespace URI and 'local-name', not on the 
> prefix:local-name form?

Indeed.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2005Oct/0054.html
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