Re: [xsl] Clark notation in XPath

[Oleg Tkachenko <oleg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jirka Kosek wrote:

> I bet that anyone who need to do more then one query would not like this 
> syntax.

It's sure more verbose, but what about (proposed recently by Microsoft):

const string myns = "{http://myDomain.co.uk/namespaces/ns1}";
MyDom.select(myns + "myElement")

Here myns variable actually serves as an alias for a namespace name. One 
of problems here is that it's getting uglier once you've got more than 
one selection step.

> However it wouldn't be bad if some future version of XML (and XPath) 
> allowed to use Clarks notation everywhere where QName is allowed. But 
> this will hardly happen I think.

I wonder why?

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