• To: "'Richard Tobin'" <richard@i...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XML-aware programming language?
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:41:26 -0000
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> >If this requirement had been foreseen
> 
> Surely it was foreseen.  QNames in content were first used by
> XPath/XSLT, and the namespaces spec had to be produced in a hurry
> precisely to avoid blocking work on a stylesheet spec.

Yes: QNames are used in patterns in the Dec 1998 draft of XSLT

http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-xsl-19981216

which predates the Namespaces Rec of 14 Jan 1999.

There were of course people on this list who saw that all was not well:

http://mailman.ic.ac.uk/pipermail/xml-dev/1999-January/008386.html

http://mailman.ic.ac.uk/pipermail/xml-dev/1999-February/009516.html

Michael Kay

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