RE: Is default namespace also applicable to the QName in the XPath spec.?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:daniel@veillard.com] 
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 3:10 PM
> To: Stanley Guan
> Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Is default namespace also applicable to the 
> QName in the XPath spec.?
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Given a statement like the following:
> > 
> >   <xsd:selector xpath=".//myNS:t/myNS:row"/>
> > 
> > 
> > If there is a default namespace (same as the namespace
> > what prefix myNS mapped to) in scope, can we
> > simplify the above statement to be:
> > 
> >    <xsd:selector xpath=".//t/row"/>?
> 
>   I hope the answer is no, because XPath-1.0 states 
> explicitely that a non-qualified name in an XPath step can 
> only match nodes without a namespace (i.e. this won't select 
> elements in the default namespace). I assume/hope XML Schemas 
> is compatible at that level.

You assume correctly. According to the REC 

	Schema Component Constraint: Selector Value OK 

	All of the following must be true:
	1. The {selector} must be a valid XPath expression, as defined
in [XPath]. 

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Received on Monday, 22 July 2002 18:52:15 UTC