Re: [Exist-open] Odd namespace problems

[Michael B. <mbe...@mb...>]

Andrew Hart wrote:

> presumably because the input data is now not in the default
> namespace (and so not anywhere, is there a nowhere namespace?)

Well yes indeed: there is "no namespace".  No namespace is, for example,
where *all* attributes are unless explicitly and individually bound to a
namespace prefix. So this "no namespace" is extremely important because
there's a lot of it about in most people's documents. Some of the more
insiduous problems people have with namespaces is the very wrong assumption
that unprefixed attributes are in the default namespace. They aren't.

Not that this has anything to do with the posted problem (what does Saxon
say or do with these samples?), but it's the sort of info that people need
to know and which can be hard to find when it's needed...

Michael Beddow