Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>>"Michael" == Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>
>     Michael> I have thought for a long time that it would be a good
>     Michael> idea to allow such a notation (a) in source XML, (b) in
>     Michael> XPath expressions, and (c) in the lexical space of the
>     Michael> xs:QName data type; but I haven't had much success in
>     Michael> persuading anyone.
>
> I actually prefer the notation that the WG recently introduced for
> error messages - the namespace-uri followed by # followed by the local
> name - one less character to type.

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

			Jirka

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