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Re: namespace prefixes within attribute values

• From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
• To: XML-Dev Mailing list <xml-dev@X...>
• Date: 10 Mar 2000 09:53:09 +0000

Ray Whitmer <ray@x...> writes:

> Perhaps I missed something, but would this type of value become shredded if 
> you save canonical XML, which reassigns all the prefixes but presumably 
> does not know about namespaces in values represented by prefixes?
> 
> Is that a problem?

That's one reason XML Schema provides a QName simple type definition,
so you can identify such attributes.  This won't help XPath, because
the whole attribute is not a QName, but rather may contain them.

ht
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