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Re: Errors in Kendall Clark's xml.com article on QNames


Re:  Errors in Kendall Clark's xml.com article on QNames
Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...> writes:

> At 1:50 PM +0000 2/13/02, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> 
> 
> >2) "..there's no way for an XML processor to tell whether QNames are
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
          EMPHASIS ADDED
> >    used in values." (again, quoting Lenz [2], ellipses in original)
> >
> >That's simply false -- any sensible use of QNames would involve a W3C
> >XML Schema or other type-assigning schema language, which in turn
> >would identify all element content and/or attribute values which were
> >QNames.  This means that using type-aware XPath 2.0 it would be
> >trivial to locate all QNames in a document.  Note further that any
> >sensible API for type-information-bearing infosets will expose the
> >_values_ of leaf nodes, which for QNames is defined as being a pair of
> >namespace name and local name.
> >
> 
> No, that's simply true. Many of us aren't using schema-aware
> parsers. Most of us who are still don't have access to the PSVI type
> information in our applications. Even if we did, most of the documents
> we get in practice wouldn't have schemas.

The quote I disagreed with didn't say "I can't" or "my favourite
software doesn't", it said "there's no way".  All it takes to disprove
a universal is to give one counter-example, and I did.  I'm sorry your
parser isn't schema-aware, but it could be, and then you'd be better
off.

ht
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          W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team
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