Re: Context and... Re: the case of two bats

>The authors clearly intended that the namespace name, by which they meant
> the literal value of the ns-attr, was the basis for matching markup
> vocabularies and their proper processors.

Agreed. Postal/Memory/Gettysburgh <x:address/>

But the key to doing that is just having a recognizable name for the
namespace. What form that name takes isn't relevant, except as far as
discouraging accidental reuse goes.

The question we've been debating for a month is whether the declaration
_contains_  the recognizable name or _refers_to_ that name. The NS spec
said the former but said it poorly, the XPath spec misread it and adopted
the latter as a result.


Is there anyone who feels  further debate will help them decide?


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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research

Received on Thursday, 15 June 2000 10:52:39 UTC