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RE: I need a name

• From: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>
• To: 'Richard Tobin' <richard@c...>
• Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 10:59:04 -0700

The term "universal name" appears once in the Namespace Rec[1] and is
defined in the Namespaces FAQ [2].

[1]http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/
[2]http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/NamespacesFAQ.htm#q10_11

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Tobin [mailto:richard@c...]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 7:23 AM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: I need a name
> 
> 
> Does any spec give a name to the (namespace name, local name) 
> pair that
> identifies an element or attribute?  It's not a qualified 
> name - that's
> the string that appears in a document which is expanded into such a
> pair by looking up the prefix or using the default namespace.
> 
> The Schema Datatypes spec views these pairs as the value space of
> QNames (and the lexical space is QNames in the sense of the Namespaces
> spec).  But that's hardly a handy name.
> 
> -- Richard
> 
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