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At 10:41 AM 8/6/98 +0700, James Clark wrote: >For example in an XSL stylesheet an element representing a rule can >contain an attribute value with a string such as "ns:foo" with the >semantic that this rule matches an element in the source of a type which >has a local name "foo" and a URI equal to the URI in effect for the >prefix "ns" on the rule element in the stylesheet. Yes, but the person writing the stylesheet knows what namespace his rule elements are in, right? So in effect, you're still specifying a match based on the underlying URI, not the prefix? I have a feeling you wouldn't have posted that if the answers weren't "wrong, and no". So could you give a motivating example. I find it really hard to be comfortable with any scenario in which the prefix, not the associated URI, has any real effect... it seems so clearly just a placeholder. I'd go so far as to say that scenarios in which the prefixes become interesting are prima facie evidence of weakness in the namespace facility. I mean, in C, are the semantics of strlen() and strcpy() ever affected by the name of the char * variable they're applied to? -T. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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