Re: [xml-dev] limits of the generic

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Re: [xml-dev] limits of the generic
Uche Ogbuji scripsit:

> I was a bit careless with my example.  expanded-name() would probably return a 
> string, which could be the namespace then the local name separated by a 
> character illegal in URI (note that the NS 1.1. discussion casts a cloud over 
> this)

A better approach would be a local-name followed by some ASCII delimiter
followed by the namespace name, for that very reason.  It's not like
you are very likely to sort on them or anything; you just want to compare
them for equality.

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