- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:01:45 +0100
- To: holstege@mathling.com
- CC: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org, SWBPD <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>
Mary Holstege wrote: >> The question is: >> Some of the examples show the use of a namespace prefix in a component >> designator, others omit the namespace prefix. Please summarize when >> the namespace prefix is necessary, and when it can be omitted. >> (Related comment #j090) > > > If the xmlns() pointer is required in the syntax for full canonical > designators in the syntax, that is an error, which we should fix: > the intention is that it is required if there are some actual namespaces > to bind, and we forgot about the case where there is no target namespace. > The reason the examples in section 6 leave them out is because that schema > has no target namespace (from which I conclude that some extended examples > with a target namespace might be in order). > > The intention here is that we not define a URI reference that depends on > some external context (i.e. namespace bindings) to interpret. > > Speaking only for myself. > > Cheers, > > //Mary Thanks, that looks OK, but I am not totally certain yet. I hope some member of the XML Schema WG can find time to talk with me in Tokyo just to ensure that I have understood this point to the extent that I need to. Jeremy
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