- From: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 19:05:31 +0100
- To: "'David Sledge'" <dsledge@lternet.edu>, <www-ql@w3.org>
These queries are equivalent. The prefix is just a shorthand for the URI.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-ql-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ql-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of David Sledge
> Sent: 04 April 2006 18:31
> To: www-ql@w3.org
> Subject: Namespace Prefixes
>
>
> Do namespace prefixes matter in xqueries or just the associated
> namespace URIs? Provided that the document biblio.rdf is exactly the
> same for each of the following queries, should each query give me the
> exact same result?
>
> QUERY 1
> _______
> xquery version "1.0";
> declare namespace rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";
>
> for $root in doc('biblio.rdf')/rdf:root
> return $root
>
> QUERY 2
> _______
> xquery version "1.0";
> declare namespace blah="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";
>
> for $root in doc('biblio.rdf')/blah:root
> return $root
>
> QUERY 3
> _______
> xquery version "1.0";
> declare default element namespace
> "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";
>
> for $root in doc('biblio.rdf')/root
> return $root
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>
Received on Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:07:51 UTC