Relative URIs in namespaces

[Pavel Minaev]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Mukul Gandhi<http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Pavel Minaev<http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk> wrote:
>> Also, if indeed allowed, is the practice of using relative namespace
>> URIs in any way deprecated in XQuery spec (or other documents that it
>> normatively references), the same way they are deprecated in XML
>> Namespaces?
>
> Yes, you are right. Use of relative URI references in namespace
> declarations is deprecated, by the Namespaces in XML 1.0 spec, (ref:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#iri-use). The page,
> http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xppa has more information about this
> recommendation.

It is clearly deprecated in XML Namespaces and XML Infoset. However, I
don't see how this deprecation applies to XQuery directly. Literal
result elements in the latter, for example, aren't defined by either
spec.