RE: thinking about "namespace pedantry"

To: "'james anderson'" <james.anderson@s...>,<xml-names-editor@w...>
Subject: RE: thinking about "namespace pedantry"
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:36:48 +0100
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> 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.

Michael Kay

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