- From: Max Froumentin <mf@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 14:19:15 +0100
- To: Á¤¿¬¿ <yjy@softforum.co.kr>
- Cc: <www-xpath-comments@w3.org>
In XPath, a namespace node has:
- an expanded name, i.e: a local part and a namespace URI
- the local part is defined to contain the prefix
- the namespace URI (which is *not* the URI of that node) is null
- contents: a string that contains the namespace URI of that node
so, xmlns:foo="http://www.example.com" would create a namespace node
such that:
- its expanded name is:
- local part: foo
- namespace URI: null
- its contents is "http://www.example/com"
The namespace URI is always null, because namespace declarations do
not themselves belong to a given namespace. As the namespace spec
says, "The prefix xmlns is used only for namespace bindings and is not
itself bound to any namespace name."
Hope this helps,
Max.
You wrote:
> ----- My thought.
> In the above statement,
> "the local part is the namespace prefix",
> is it right?
>
> In my knowledge, (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names)
> Qname = namespace_prefix + local_part .
> where namespace prefix is bounded to URI.
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