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John Cowan wrote: > Paul Prescod scripsit: > > >>I hope I'm missing something: if I have ten XPointers in a document and >>they each use 3 namespaces, do I necessarily have 30 xmlns declarations? > > > No, you have 3 uses of the xmlns() scheme in each of your ten XPointers. Each one "declaring" a namespace. ;) > The xmlns declarations in the embedding document are irrelevant; after all, I was asking about declarations using the xmlns scheme. > that document need not be XML at all: it could be plain text, HTML, > PDF, or hard copy. IMHO, it is not wise to dumb down XPointer-in-XML to the same level as XPointer-in-hard copy just to be consistent. == I am think that we need a scoped short-form mechanism to replace entities. The more we put URIs as component identifiers in attribute values, the more we need short-forms. If there is a growing concensus (is there?) that QNames are not the way then maybe we need a declaration mechanism specific to data. Perhaps it could be used both to declare short-names for URIs and also for character entities. Paul Prescod
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