Subject: RE: [xsl] Clark notation in XPath From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 20:57:56 +0100 |
I have thought for a long time that it would be a good idea to allow such a notation (a) in source XML, (b) in XPath expressions, and (c) in the lexical space of the xs:QName data type; but I haven't had much success in persuading anyone. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Fawcett [mailto:joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 02 October 2005 19:08 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [xsl] Clark notation in XPath > > Dear All > > I was talking to someone at Microsoft last week about greater > adoption of XML in > general and some of the things people struggle with. > > One idea was to allow Clark notation when doing searches on > documents as > developers seem to struggle with the idea that that don't > need to know the > actual prefix used in a document. > > Let's say I have in memory a document that has all elements in the > http://myDomain.co.uk/namespaces/ns1 namespace. > I can select an element using the xpath: > > MyDom.select("{http://myDomain.co.uk/namespaces/ns1}myElement") > > Of course this is not standard but I'm sure similar ideas > have been mooted in > the past so I'd appreciate your comments. > > Joe
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