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   Re: [xml-dev] namespace reprise

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Julian Reschke wrote:

>>From: Emmanuil Batsis (Manos) [mailto:mbatsis@humanmarkup.org]
>>
>>Namespaces should point to schemas, being the actual vocabulary
>>definition pointer. Even better, it should point to an an RDF document
>>    
>>
>
>The benefit being...?
>

..the ability to combine the formal purposes of XML names and a location 
for the vocabulary definition or other metadata source as a choice. Now 
I'm forced to distinguish between a vocabulary, and an identifier for it 
or other information about it etc.

>>Secondly, a namespace URI designed *not* to actually point to something,
>>should not be a URL or any other type of URI that uses a scheme designed
>>to be used for resource retreival.
>>    
>>
>
>What if I decide at a later pointer that my namespace URI now *should*
>locate something?
>

Change your namespace URI to a URL. Do you think this presents a problem?

>>Attributes, the base of numerous debate around XML are also tortured by
>>the XML names recommendation, meaning the default namespaces do not
>>apply directly to attributes" part. I never managed to understand the
>>reasoning behind this.
>>
>>Another thing that bothers me is the rough edges concerning APIs. Most
>>APIs handle namespaces in a really stupid way. Even XPath in XSLT
>>(which, IMHO is by far the best in it's anticipation of namespaces
>>thanks to the according axis) is incapable of dynamically producing
>>namespaces and one must know the default namespace to match the desired
>>    
>>
>
>Well, that's by design. The default namespace is just a syntactic
>abbreviation so that you don't need to use prefixes in your *input*
>document.
>

Right. But since that default namespace is declared in the source 
document, it is accessible from your XSLT, so why isn't XSLT aware of it 
though a function or something (e.g. default-ns)? I would also like that 
to be dependent on context and the default namespace in scope, instead 
of limited to the default namespace for the root..

Cheers,

Manos





 

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