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At 05:08 PM 1/4/2002 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote: >Wouldn't it be much much better just to (be able to) say that they indeed >behave identically? That would have been sufficient, except that many questions occur in XQuery that did not occur in XML namespaces as part of an XML document. XQuery needs to be able to declare namespace prefixes globally, and the interactions between these global interactions and the xmlns attributes in element constructors had to be defined. Can two global namespace declarations declare the same prefix? Can an xmlns attribute redefine a prefix previously assigned? Also, namespace prefixes can be used in expressions that occur within curly braces in an element - can namespace prefixes defined with namespace attributes in element constructors be used in these expressions? These kinds of questions had to be answered, which is why the given section of the XQuery document exists. Jonathan
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