[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: Expanded names are not enough

• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 16:11:48 -0400

Tim Bray wrote:

> Right, I get it.  The idea is, for the case where qualified names are
> given in attribute *values* (or I imagine, element content), the
> prefix map (or at least a qualified-name expansion function) needs to be
> available to application programmers - which should not be an issue
> for implementors since the machinery has to be there anyhow. -T.

Except for the problem of scope: the expansion function needs to know
with respect to which point in the document it is operating.  (Which
is not necessarily the same as the current point of parsing.)

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@c...
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i...
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)

• References:
  • Re: Expanded names are not enough
    • From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>

• Prev by Date: Re: Expanded names are not enough
• Next by Date: Re: PEReferences in comments
• Previous by thread: Re: Expanded names are not enough
• Next by thread: Re: Namespaces/XSchema Spec - XSchema Element (Sections 2.0 and 2.1),
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread