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Hi Simon,
On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 15:10, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> As long as we're arguing about the Infoset, I have to say that I find
> the decision of XPath to consider namespace declarations something other
> than attributes and of the Infoset to put them in a separate [namespace
> attributes] box to be a painful sign that abstractions are dangerous to
> useful syntax. I have no idea who decided we all needed to be protected
> from namespace declarations this way, but I've yet to see a
> justification for it.
Yes, that's just what I was thinking... Add a shortcut to handle
inherited attributes (useful also for xml:lang, xml:space and many other
situations) such as "@@fooo" which could mean something like
"parent-or-self::*/@foo[last()]", ie the "inherited attribute foo" and
we would have had a simple alternative to access to namespace
declarations...
Eric
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