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XPOINTER XMLNS() SCHEME

Abstract

The XPointer xmlns() scheme is intended to be used with the XPointer Framework [xptr-framework] to allow correct interpretation of namespace prefixes in pointers, for instance, namespace-qualified scheme names and namespace-qualified element or attribute names appearing within scheme data.

Status of this document

This document is a Proposed Recommendation (PR) of the W3C. This document has been produced by the W3C XML Linking Working Group as part of the XML Activity. It is intended to address a subset of the original XPointer requirements, and to serve as a possible part of a recommendation to the IETF for a fragment identifier syntax for the XML Mime types.

W3C Advisory Committee Members are invited to send formal review comments to the W3C Team until 13 December 2002 at team-xptr-review@w3.org. The public is invited to send comments to the public mailing list www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org (archive). After the review the Director will announce the document's disposition. This announcement should not be expected sooner than 14 days after the end of the review.

This document is based upon the XPointer Candidate Recommendation published on 11 September 2001. Feedback received during that review and a lack of a sufficient number of complete implementations led the Working Group to factor the basic functionality specified there into four specifications: the XPointer Framework, the XPointer element() Scheme, the XPointer xmlns() scheme (this specification), and the XPointer xpointer() scheme. This specification subsequently went through an additional Last Call period. The XML Linking Working Group believes that this specification addresses all relevant Last Call and Candidate Recommendation issues, and represents an interoperable subset of the implementations documented in the previous Implementation Report, and thus that a further Candidate Recommendation period is not necessary. Information about more recent implementations of subsets relevant to this specification and the XPointer element() Scheme and XPointer Framework can be found in the new Implementation Report. Other specifications such as XInclude 1.0 already make normative references to this specification, which makes timely progression to Recommendation desirable.

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Publication as a Proposed Recommendation does not imply endorsement by the W3C membership. This is still a draft document and may be updated, replaced or made obsolete by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite a W3C Proposed Recommendation as other than a "work in progress." A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/.