RE: [xml-dev] XPointer: which namespace bindings in the result?

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

I was under the impression that the result of an XPointer was a reference to
existing nodes, not a copy; so the answer is that the namespaces in scope
for an element are unaffected by selecting the element using XPointer. If
you subsequently copy the node (as you might) then the behavior is defined
by whatever copy operation you use - if you use xsl:copy, for example, then
all the in-scope namespaces will be retained.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florent Georges [mailto:darkman_spam@yahoo.fr] 
> Sent: 22 September 2006 14:39
> To: XML Dev ML
> Subject: [xml-dev] XPointer: which namespace bindings in the result?
> 
>   Hi
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>   I wasn't able to find in the XPointer specifications the 
> answer to a simple question: "Which namespace bindings will 
> contain the result of evaluating an XPointer?"  In the 
> following example, are we guaranted the result tree will 
> contain the binding for the prefix 'ns1'?  And 'ns2'?
> 
>     XPointer: element(/1/1)
> 
>     Input:
>     <elem xmlns:ns1="ns1" xmlns:ns2="ns2">
>       <ns1:elem/>
>     </elem>
> 
>   Regards,
> 
> --drkm
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