- From: <Svgdeveloper@aol.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:35:46 EDT
- To: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
- CC: xml-names-editor@w3.org, public-qt-comments@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
- Message-ID: <19d.18adcb55.2c5fd752@aol.com>
In a message dated 04/08/2003 13:53:30 GMT Daylight Time, Michael.Kay@softwareag.com writes: > > This extended use of XML namespaces was first introduced in XSLT 1.0. You > may not like it, but it works, and it's too late to change it. Which aspect(s) of the inconsistency underlying the problem are you suggesting are immutable? Andrew Watt > > Michael Kay > > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Svgdeveloper@aol.com [mailto:Svgdeveloper@aol.com] >> Sent: 02 August 2003 09:11 >> To: xml-names-editor@w3.org; public-qt-comments@w3.org >> Subject: Inappropriate use of XML Namespaces in XQuery, XPath 2.0 and XSLT >> 2.0? >> >> >> In the various draft XQuery, XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0 documents it is >> indicated that datatypes and functions are contained in designated XML namespaces. >> A similar seeming error made in W3C XML Schema is also carried forward into >> the XQuery/XPath/XSLT2 documents. >> >> This seems to me to be in conflict with the Namespaces in XML 1.0 >> Recommendation which defines an XML namespace as applying to element type names and >> attribute names. There is no provision that I can see in the Namespaces in >> XML Rec for datatype or function names being part of an "XML namespace". >> >> Correcting this seeming discrepancy should be straightforward but it seems >> to me that it needs to be tidied. >> >> Andrew Watt >
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