RE: CURIEs / QNames from Scott Cantor on 2010-06-29 (public-xmlsec@w3.org from June 2010)

From: Scott Cantor <cantor.2@osu.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:04:34 -0400
To: <Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com>
Cc: <public-xmlsec@w3.org>
Message-ID: <019f01cb1794$00e2bfd0$02a83f70$@osu.edu>

> CURIEs also seems to introduce the notion of "a default prefix value"
which
> can add some complexity.

Is a default prefix value any different than a default namespace? QNames can
legally consist of just the part after the colon (they don't have to have a
colon). Lots of things screw that up, but this sounds similar.

-- Scott

Received on Tuesday, 29 June 2010 14:05:01 UTC