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[list4xt] Re: retracting previous email; can we disable the XMLNS-checking?

Subject: [list4xt] Re: retracting previous email; can we disable the XMLNS-checking?

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From: Simon St.Laurent (simonstl@simonstl.com)
Date: 15/06/2000 - 18:32

At 06:27 PM 6/15/00 +0200, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
>Absolutely NOT !
>
>The namespace specification is very clear that the namespace URIs are
>only identifiers and that the URIs are not even expected to point
>anything.
>
>Even in the current discussions about this hot topic, retrieving the
>information pointed by the namespace URIs doesn't seem to be retained as
>a valid option.

I'd like that to be the case, but it isn't universally held:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Jun/0562.html

I don't think it needs to affect XSLT processing per se, however.

The battle over URIs that's going on right now may generate a need to
update XT's XPath handling, should the 'absolutization' camp win. We'll
see what happens.

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
http://merchantsaccounts.net - XML essays and books 

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