- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Oct 2000 10:14:41 +0100
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Cc: XML Schema Comments <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> writes:
> Part 2 describes the value space of QName as "The value space of QName
> is the set of tuples {namespace name, local part}, where namespace name
> is a uriReference and local part is an NCName". This is not quite
> right: a QName need not have a prefix; in such a case, the namespace
> name part may be missing.
We should indeed clarify---in most places we talk about QNames, we
make clear that an 'absent' value for namespace URI signals the
unqualified case.
ht
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