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On 4 February 2010 09:13, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 2010-02-04 09:04 +0000, Andrew Welch wrote: >> >> > Just to check that by "valid potential QName" you mean a string that is >> > in >> > the lexical space of xs:QName and will therefore constitute a valid >> > QName >> > provided the prefix is in scope? >> > >> > ($x castable as xs:QName) will not work because (a) it also tests >> > whether >> > the prefix is in scope, and (b) to avoid the issues of it therefore >> > being >> > context-sensitive, the W3C spec says this is only allowed if the >> > argument >> > ($x) is a string literal. >> > >> > So you do need to use the regex approach. >> >> Could you do a fn:prefix-from-QName($x) = fn:in-scope-prefixes(.) >> check before doing the castable as check? > > Nope: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xpath20-20070123/#id-castable > "[if] the input argument of the expression is of type xs:string but it is > not a literal string, the result of the castable expression is false." To help me understand that :-) can you provide an example of a user constructed string that is not a string literal? For example, tokenizing a string into a sequence of strings... they are all string literals aren't they? -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
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