Re: Layering XPath/XSLT namespaces is unacceptable

----- Original Message -----
From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
To: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>
Cc: "Michael Champion" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>; <xml-uri@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: Layering XPath/XSLT namespaces is unacceptable

> We seem to have a de-facto deprecation of relative syntax, with
> a very few instances of counterexamples.
> Move to accept that conclusion.

Seconded!

Tim Bray has made it clear that the *intention* of the Namespace spec was
not to allow relative URIs. James Clark's recent post noted that the
*intention* of XSLT was to adopt the Namespace Recommendation's
understanding of ns-attr.  There's no real inconsistency between XML
Namespaces and XSLT in practice, no compelling reason to open either up to
allow relative URI references, and no real evidence of documents that would
be broken by accepting this reality.  Clarify the specs to reflect these
intentions, and move on!

Received on Thursday, 15 June 2000 12:03:06 UTC