- From: Mary Holstege <holstege@mathling.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 11:04:28 -0700
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, "Asir Vedamuthu" <asirv@webmethods.com>
- Cc: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
On Tue, 03 May 2005 10:23:34 -0700, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > Asir Vedamuthu writes: > >>> I can't immediately detect whether you rule >>> out using the default namespace >> >> Per LC draft, >> >> * In the context of schema component designators, we rely on xmlns() >> XPointer scheme. So, default namespace is ruled out. >> >> * In the context of schema component paths in an XML document, namespace >> prefixes will be bound in the conventional way (using the [in-scope >> namespaces] property of the element information item). >> >> * In the context of schema component paths in other host languages, and >> XML >> applications, they will define their own namespace binding rules. >> >> Given these, my question is - should we still rule out default >> namespace? > > Yes -- out once, out always, or life gets too confusing. > > No -- use the local rules. > > I am stuck . . . > > ht Whatever else is true, we ought to clarify our own examples, and probably shouldn't use no-namespace and default-namespace examples in there except to illustrate a particular point about those cases. //Mary
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