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> To reference the name of an element type in an > attribute, one can use the namespace prefix: this is what > XPaths do, for example. So the XML schema processor > may indeed have to have the xmlns prefix->URI mappings > available. A namespace processor will not resolve values > of attributes, merely names of elements and attributes (AFAIK, > but I am easily confusable.) Just to make this concrete... Suppose (in the future) I have a document which indicates that a particular attribute is of the qname type, via xmlschema. Now suppose I process this via a SAX or XSLT processor. If that processor is "xmlschema-aware", then it will expand those qname's in attribute values in the same way it would element type names and attribute names. I would write xslt patterns using whatever prefix I like. But if the SAX or XSLT processor is not "xmlschema-aware", then I would have to match against them using a lexical pattern that happens to have a colon in it (i.e. choose the same prefix). Is that right? It also seems like this would have implications for xsl:key, in ways I can't quite suss out. This is of interest to me not just for use of an attribute value as a reference. I would like to have an "enum" list where the values are qualified. These are basically URNs. Maybe that is an abuse of the namespace mechanism though? -mda 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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