Re: New W3C Working Drafts (and new Saxon release)

Michael,

    From the list of changes :

<quote>
It is now a recoverable error to generate nodes in the result tree
using a namespace name that is not a valid instance of xs:anyURI. XSLT
1.0 explicitly stated that this was not an error; however, the XPath
2.0 data model assumes that the name of a node is a valid xs:QName,
and the namespace part of a valid xs:QName, if present, must be a
valid xs:anyURI. The fact that this error is recoverable, however,
gives implementations freedom to avoid strict validation of namespace
names if they wish to do so.
</quote>

    May I ask why this change was made? Not that I'm inconvenienced by
this - it just seems like an odd thing to explicitly change.

Thanks,
Kenneth

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:23:55 -0000, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There's a new set of XSLT/XPath/XQuery working drafts published today.
> Nothing earth-shattering in them: the XSLT and XPath documents both have a
> list of changes right at the end.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/