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OK, but this adds to the description of my situation that developers have to know not just XPath and its expressions but the way XPath is implemented. ---- Stephen D Green On 9 May 2011 16:38, Michael Kay <mike@s...> wrote: > >> Here is an example fragment >> >> <a xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version-id="0.4" >> xmlns="http://example.com"> >> ... >> >> In XPath 1.0 >> /default:a/@version-id = 0.4 returns true >> but /a/@version-id = 0.4 returns false >> >> In XPath 2.0 >> /default:a/@version-id = 0.4 returns an error (prefix not bound) >> and /a/@version-id = 0.4 returns true >> >> (I tried these out in Oxygen and I trust the results) >> > > These results are entirely attributable to the way in which oXygen defaults > the parameters controlling XPath evaluation (in particular the namespace > bindings), and not to the XPath specification itself. See: > > http://www.oxygenxml.com/forum/topic1538.html > > They could have chosen to make the bindings compatible between the two > versions, but they chose instead to take advantage of new features in the > language. > > You're right of course that namespaces are far and away the number one > usability problem in XPath for the majority of users, especially casual > users. > > Michael Kay > Saxonica > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > >
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