Re: Identity constraints and default namespace

James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> writes:

> In the schema for schemas I see things like
> 
>            <key name="group">
>             <selector xpath="group"/>
>             <field xpath="@name"/>
>            </key>
> 
> The XPath expression "group" will select child elements whose local name
> is "group" and whose namespace URI is absent.  Yet the intention here
> seems to be that it select elements whose namespace URI is the default
> namespace in scope on the selector element.

Thanks for reminding me -- I should use explicit prefixes to avoid
potential confusion.

ht
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