- From: <Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:53:58 -0400
- To: francis@redrice.com
- Cc: "Arnold, Curt" <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, Ian Stokes-Rees <ijs@decisionsoft.com>, "'xmlschema-dev@w3.org'" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>, xmlschema-dev-request@w3.org
>> I would say that they are *directly* associated >> with the null namespace, if only because that's >> how XSLT and XPath treat them. The W3C has made the tradeoff of developing specifications in stages, taking each to Recommendation status and then building more. Locally scoped elements were not anticipated by XML 1.0, the Namespaces recommendation, or by current versions of XSL/Xpath. For better or worse, they were added by the Schemas rec. As Henry points out, they were made quite symmetric with attributes. It's not surprising that neither XSL nor XPath treats them in a manner that reflects their "local" nature -- it's something you discover only with a schema. It will be interesting to see whether future versions of XPathd do indeed take account of locally scoped elements (not sure they should, but they could). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 Lotus Development Corp. Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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