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On 10/09/2011 04:17, Amelia A Lewis wrote: > However, a variant of XPath is perfectly > feasible, in which the expressions are enhanced with the inclusion of > namespaces, using the JC expanded-name form. XPath 3.0 does so. It uses the syntax "namespace-uri":local-name rather than Clark notation to avoid conflict with another proposed use of curly braces in XQuery. I hope this form will become accepted in other contexts. I'd like to see it allowed anywhere a QName is allowed, including element and attribute names in XML. (It wouldn't be legal XML 1.0, but it could easily be preprocessed into legal XML 1.0 for the benefit of parsers that don't recognize it.) And then perhaps people will be encouraged to go for short namespace names, like "w3c.xslt", that remove the need for prefixes without significantly increasing the risk of name clashes. Michael Kay Saxonica
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