Re: [xml-dev] XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?

[Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>]

> Why do you need to wrap the URI in any characters at all?  Why not just do:
>
> <http://www.mycompany.com/myschema:local/>

I think one of the goals is to be able to use the expanded form in
XPaths, so that the XPath is enough on its own and doesn't require the
prefixes to be mapped in advance.  So, using your suggestion above
with no delimeters you would end up with:

"/http://www.mycompany.com/myschema:root-elem/http://www.mycompany.com/myschema:child-elem";

...which probably isn't feasible, and not nice on the eyes :)



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