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Re: Rethinking namespaces, attribute remapping

• To: ndw@n... (Norman Walsh)
• Subject: Re: Rethinking namespaces, attribute remapping
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:48:05 -0400 (EDT)
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• In-reply-to: <87adlzzbbi.fsf@n...> from "Norman Walsh" at Sep 30, 2002 12:33:53 PM

Norman Walsh scripsit:

> The only significant technical objection I recall hearing against PIs
> was that they didn't have globally unique names. But if we allowed the
> PI target to be a QName...

It can't be.  But a PI target *can* be a notation name, which a NOTATION
declaration then maps to a URI.

Ta-da!

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