- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 2001 09:36:53 +0000
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Cc: XML Schema Comments <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>, www-xpath-comments@w3.org
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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