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The most common term seems to be "universal name". This is used informally in the namespaces rec in section 1.0.: These considerations require that document constructs should have universal names, whose scope extends beyond their containing document. This specification describes a mechanism, XML namespaces, which accomplishes this. It is also used by James Clark in his paper about XML Namespaces and in my XML namespaces FAQ. BTW, James introduces the notation {<uri>}<local-name> -- for example, {http://www.foo.com/}a -- as a way of spelling out universal names. I've used this in the FAQ as well. -- Ronald Bourret XML, Databases, and Schemas http://www.rpbourret.com Speaker, Geek Cruises' XML Excursion '02 Richard Tobin wrote: > > Does any spec give a name to the (namespace name, local name) pair that > identifies an element or attribute? It's not a qualified name - that's > the string that appears in a document which is expanded into such a > pair by looking up the prefix or using the default namespace. > > The Schema Datatypes spec views these pairs as the value space of > QNames (and the lexical space is QNames in the sense of the Namespaces > spec). But that's hardly a handy name.
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