- From: Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@valinet.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 23:20:20 -0400
- To: "Clark C. Evans" <cce@clarkevans.com>, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
"Clark C. Evans" wrote: > The language about "absoultizing" relative URI references is > not the only divergance between the Namespace and XPath > specification! > > The specifications also diverge on their treatment of the > infamous "per-element-partition". The XPath spec's notion > of "equal" *ignores* the element part of the expanded-name. > > >From my reading of the XPath spec, the expanded name for > att in <x:a att='val' /> is 'equal' to the expanded name > for att in <x:b att='val' />. While, according to the > namespace spec, they would not be equal, as "a" != "b". The namespace spec cares about equality only in one very specific context: satisfying the constraints in Sec. 5.3 on uniqueness of attributes. And uniqueness is a consideration only when comparing attributes of a single element. So the fact that the namespace spec (more precisely, Appendix A.3 of the namespace spec) considers them unequal has no consequences. Paul Abrahams
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