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Michael Kay wrote: > ... > There's actually a debate going on in the XSLT/XQuery groups at the moment > about allowing a syntax for QNames (for example in XPath expressions and in > places in XSLT where QNames are used at run-time) that consists of the URI > and local-name, without requiring a prefix. Finding the right syntax is not > easy. I think it needs to work with all namespace names, which certainly > includes all legal IRIs and possibly includes all strings. Clark notation > {uri}local is one candidate, though the curly braces cause problems in some > contexts such as XSLT attribute value templates. I've been proposing > backticks: `uri`local or `uri`:local but there's a fair bit of opposition to > that on aesthetic grounds. (Curly braces and backticks are some of the few > characters that are illegal in IRIs). > ... Interesting. In JCR (Java Content Reppository) 1.0 (JSR-170), all names used in the API were passed as prefixed names, and there was a seaparate API to get/set namespace/prefix mappings. In JCR 2.0 (JSR-283), we have extended the API to accept names in Clark notation everywhere previously only prefixed names were allowed. BR, Julian
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