- From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:56:27 -0400
- To: <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>, "'james anderson'" <james.anderson@setf.de>, <xml-names-editor@w3.org>
- Cc: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Message Michael Kay wrote: [[ > in summary, the "namespaces in xml" recommendation's specifications with regard to "names > which are not in any namespace" are unnecessarily and unreasonably paradoxical. Absolutely. James Clark got round this quite neatly in XPath 1.0, I think, by referring to the "thing that is not a namespace" as "the null namespace". We need a name for it, and we can use that phrase without having to agree on whether the thing is or is not a namespace. ]] "Collection of unqualified names" ? Jonathan
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