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Re: I need a name

• From: Jeni Tennison <mail@j...>
• To: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 16:57:39 +0100

Hi Richard,

> 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.

XPath 1.0 terms this an 'expanded name':

  "Some types of node also have an expanded-name, which is a pair
   consisting of a local part and a namespace URI."
                           http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#dt-expanded-name

Cheers,

Jeni

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