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Re: Not quite an I-D announcement

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• Subject: Re: Not quite an I-D announcement
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:14:07 -0500
• In-reply-to: <p04330103b9e426f51004@[192.168.254.4]>

elharo@m... (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:
>Section 7 states "The current draft includes providing support for 
>the default namespace in the XPointer namespace binding context. This 
>can be removed, but needs consideration."
>
>It's not clear what you mean here. Section 7 is the only place I see 
>the default namespace mentioned or used.

Basically it means that I needed to think it through.  Other sections
state that all of the bindings are added, which to me would include the
default namespace, but XPath, as you note, ignores it.

>Furthermore, the default namespace does not apply to XPath 1.0 
>expressions; e.g. //name selects name elements in no namespace, not 
>name elements in the default namespace. So even if you can include 
>the default namespace, it probably won't have any effect.

I think that's the simple conclusion that I should add instead of my
current "needs consideration" text.

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Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA
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http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether

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