Re: QNames and the XPointer namespace scheme

At 12:33 PM -0400 7/8/02, Norman Walsh wrote:

>XPointers in a document do use the in-scope namespaces. One could also
>use the xmlns() scheme in those pointers (because they aren't
>forbidden), but it's never necessary to do so.


Actually, they don't. They only use the xmlns() schema mappings. 
In-scope namespaces from the parent and ancestor elements do not 
apply.
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