• To: "'Jonathan Robie'" <jonathan.robie@d...>,"'Joe English'" <jenglish@f...>
• Subject: RE: XML-aware programming language?
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 18:27:05 -0000
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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> 
> But if you store and retrieve an XSLT styleheet or W3C XML Schema, 
> wouln't you gripe if the namespaces needed to interpret them 
> were lost?
> 

The problem is much more extensive than these two document types. I see lots
of examples of people holding element names as values, and people using
XPath expressions in configuration files. And of course any document that
uses xsi:type has namespaces in content. OpenGIS also uses them, I haven't
quite worked out how.

Norm Walsh has some good suggestions at
http://norman.walsh.name/2004/11/10/xml20 Any solution to the
QName-in-content needs to provide a way forward for people who are using
them, rather than just saying "whoops, we got that wrong: your problem."

Michael Kay

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