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RE: namespaces in XML 1.1 - namespace names become *IRI* refer

• To: <mbatsis@h...>,"Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: namespaces in XML 1.1 - namespace names become *IRI* references
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 18:50:42 -0700
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• Thread-topic: namespaces in XML 1.1 - namespace names become *IRI* references

> -----Original Message-----
> From: m batsis [mailto:mbatsis@n...] 
> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 3:49 AM
> To: Thomas B. Passin; xml-dev@l...
> 
> > Ah, I see. For some reason I was thinking that the value of 
> namespace 
> > declaration attributes also had to be an NCNAME.  I don't 
> know where I 
> > got that idea but now I see it was wrong (maybe because 
> IDREFs have to 
> > be NCNAMES).
> 
> I was thinking about that too, when noticing that xsl's 
> exclude-result-prefixes attribute has the same type (NCNames). 
> 
> Why isn't there an anyURIs (derived by list from anyURI)?

A.) Because there was no xs:anyURI type when the XSLT 1.0 recommendation
was written 

and more importantly 

B.) Prefixes are NCNames not namespace names. 

On the other hand, if you are asking why XSLT decided to use prefixes
instead of namespaces (thus the attribute would have been called
exclude-result-namespaces) I assume they did this for brevity so users
don't have to create unweildy lists of namespaces. 


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