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Re: thinking about "namespace pedantry"

• To: <michael.h.kay@n...>, "'james anderson'" <james.anderson@s...>, <xml-names-editor@w...>
• Subject: Re: thinking about "namespace pedantry"
• From: "Jonathan Borden" <jonathan@o...>
• Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:56:27 -0400
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• References: <000b01c36353$cdfa1560$6401a8c0@pcukmka>

Message Michael Kay wrote:
[[
 > in summary, the "namespaces in xml" recommendation's specifications with
regard to "names
> which are not in any namespace" are unnecessarily and unreasonably
paradoxical.

Absolutely. James Clark got round this quite neatly in XPath 1.0, I think,
by referring to the "thing that is not a namespace" as "the null namespace".
We need a name for it, and we can use that phrase without having to agree on
whether the thing is or is not a namespace.
]]

"Collection of unqualified names" ?

Jonathan

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