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Re: Errors in Kendall Clark's xml.com article on QNames

• To: aarons@d...
• Subject: Re: Errors in Kendall Clark's xml.com article on QNames
• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:28:47 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• References: <011e01c1b537$e8513770$0700a8c0@skonnardt20>
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Aaron Skonnard wrote:
>>I fought against letting QNames escape into content, lost 
>>the argument to James Clark, but I'm beginning to think that
>>the cost-benefit trade-off is positive, despite the considerable
>>cost.   
>>
> 
> I'm curious, how would one refer to (cross-reference) qualified
> elements/attributes without allowing QNames in content?

Like in good perl tradition, there is would be more than one way to 
achieve this :=) !

For instance:

1) Verbose way (may be shorten by internal parsed entities):

<!DOCTYPE xs:schema PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XMLSCHEMA 200102//EN" 
"XMLSchema.dtd" [
<!ENTITY foo "http://example.org/foo">
]>

<xs:schema targetNamespace="&foo;" .../...

<xs:element ref="&foo; bar"/>
or
<xs:element refns="&foo;" refname="bar"/>

2) Mimic of xmlns:

<xs:schema xsns:foo="http://example.org/foo"

.../...

<xs:element ref="foo:bar"/>

3) W3C XML Schema specific way:

<xs:import namespace="http://example.org/foo" prefix="foo"/>

.../...

<xs:element ref="foo:bar"/>

Eric
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