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Re: Global/Local attributes

• To: dbox@m...
• Subject: Re: Global/Local attributes
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:20:47 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <CFC4F26947496E4092489B2425614958057FA757@s...>(dbox@m...)
• References: <CFC4F26947496E4092489B2425614958057FA757@s...>

> It's unfortunate, however, that most uses of QNames beyond
> element/attribute GIs assumes the element convention (no prefix gets
> default inscope namespace) rather than the attribute convention (no
> prefix gets no namespace). This appears in XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, and
> XML Query.

?? unprefixed Qnames in XPath (and so XSLT and Xquery) use attribute
convention: no namespace. the default namespace binding is not used.

David

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