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Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> writes:
> At 1:50 PM +0000 2/13/02, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>
>
> >2) "..there's no way for an XML processor to tell whether QNames are
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> > used in values." (again, quoting Lenz [2], ellipses in original)
> >
> >That's simply false -- any sensible use of QNames would involve a W3C
> >XML Schema or other type-assigning schema language, which in turn
> >would identify all element content and/or attribute values which were
> >QNames. This means that using type-aware XPath 2.0 it would be
> >trivial to locate all QNames in a document. Note further that any
> >sensible API for type-information-bearing infosets will expose the
> >_values_ of leaf nodes, which for QNames is defined as being a pair of
> >namespace name and local name.
> >
>
> No, that's simply true. Many of us aren't using schema-aware
> parsers. Most of us who are still don't have access to the PSVI type
> information in our applications. Even if we did, most of the documents
> we get in practice wouldn't have schemas.
The quote I disagreed with didn't say "I can't" or "my favourite
software doesn't", it said "there's no way". All it takes to disprove
a universal is to give one counter-example, and I did. I'm sorry your
parser isn't schema-aware, but it could be, and then you'd be better
off.
ht
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