Re: xml:id versus xmlid

/ Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh wrote:
|
|> | //*/@xml:id when xml: is not bound.
|> XPath context/API initialized incorrectly. Bug.
|
| What part of the XPath 1.0 specification justifies this interpretation? I can't
| find it. Does 2.0 clear this up?
|
|> | //*/@foo:id when foo: is bound to the XML Namespace URI.
|> XPath context/API initialized incorrectly. Bug.
|
| Ditto. What part of the XPath 1.0 specification says that the foo prefix can't
| be mapped to the XML namespace URI?

I think it follows from "The prefix xml is by definition bound to the
namespace name http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace." in the namespaces
recommendation.

I thought there was a statement somewhere that it was illegal to bind
any other prefix to that URI but I can't find it quickly.

I will endeavor to make sure that the XPath 2.0 spec is clear on
this point.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM / XML Standards Architect / Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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