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Re: I need a name
- From: Jeni Tennison <mail@jenitennison.com>
- To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 16:57:39 +0100
Hi Richard,
> Does any spec give a name to the (namespace name, local name) pair
> that identifies an element or attribute? It's not a qualified name -
> that's the string that appears in a document which is expanded into
> such a pair by looking up the prefix or using the default namespace.
XPath 1.0 terms this an 'expanded name':
"Some types of node also have an expanded-name, which is a pair
consisting of a local part and a namespace URI."
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#dt-expanded-name
Cheers,
Jeni
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Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/