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Re: I need a name




one problem with "expanded name" is that it leads to a term like
"expanded qualified name", which only makes matters worse.

Jeni Tennison wrote:
> 
> 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
>