Response to comment on Namespaces in XML 1.1

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Re: Definition of local name

We agree that the definition of local name is unclear, and we will
change the definitions of local name and namespace name to:

  [Definition: For a name N in a namespace identified by an
  IRI I, the namespace name is I. For a name N
  that is not in a namespace, the namespace name has no value.]
  [Definition: In either case the local name is N. ]

(The change from "is null" to "has no value" is a result of other
comments, and brings the spec into line with the infoset terminology.)

Note that this is not a definition of a qualified name (i.e. what
appears in an XML document), but of an abstract "name in a namespace".
The definition of qualified names is in the next paragraph.

Received on Tuesday, 22 April 2003 14:23:42 UTC