There's another rather important exception: prefixes are accessible as the
  names of namespace nodes.


oops sorry. Oh no perhaps you've brainwashed me into xpath2-newspeak and
I'd internally deprecated namespace nodes. (although of course in xpath2
the information pops up in other places as well).

David

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