Re: More on namespace bindings

Toman_Vojtech@emc.com writes:

> I was wondering whether we shouldn't say that options specified using
> the shortcut form inherit the in-scope namespace bindings of the step
> where they are specified - so that the following would work properly:
>
>> |
>> | <!-- prefix p should be already bound at this point -->
>> | <ex:delete-in-div xmlns:ex="http://example.org/ns/ex"
>> |     divchild="html:p[@class='delete']"
>> |     xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/>
>
> In a reply, Mohammed pointed out that: 
>
>> this bullet point in 5.7.5
>> [[
>> Otherwise, the in-scope namespaces from the element providing the
>> value are used.
>> ]]
>> is not far from saying that
>
> Perhaps 5.7.5 should be more explicit about what happens with option
> shortcuts? 

I think that is precisely what is meant, but I'll try to make it clearer.


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