One of the observations in section five (Namespace Bindings) asserts, as a corollary to the principle of URI context-independence, that "QNames that appear in an XPointer must not refer to in-scope namespaces". One wonders why this corollary governs "QNames in XPointers" only. While certain passages in the document do recognize alternatives to reified "in-scope namespaces" with respect to attribute names and element identifiers, as a whole, the finding ratifies - or at least tolerates - their reification as an architectural feature, rather than isolating them as the transient artifact of a particular processing model. ...Received on Friday, 26 July 2002 04:25:05 UTC
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