>>>>> "Jirka" == Jirka Kosek <jirka@xxxxxxxx> writes:

    Jirka> And how do you escape # in namespace-uri then? W3C produced
    Jirka> several namespace names ending with # (e.g. RDF).

You don't. There is no need. The parse is unambiguous.

The local-name is everything after the final #, and the namespace=uri
is everything before it.
One or two # will always be present, but it doesn't matter if it is
one or two, as the above algorithm still works.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire