Re: extraneous :'s?

On Dec 8, 2006, at 7:23 PM, [email protected] wrote:
[...]
> I'd like to point out confusion first: between QNames (qualified
> names) and expanded names. The definitions of both are given in
> Section 2.1 of the W3C Recommendation `Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Second
> edition)'. In short, QNames appear in an XML document. An expanded
> name is what QNames are mapped to after parsing and namespace
> processing. That is, an application only sees expanded names. In the
> example above: ``x:thing'' is a QName. To be precise, it is a prefixed
> QName. The colon is _mandatory_: see the productions [7-11] of Section
> 4 of the XML Namespace Recommendation, in particular, production [8].
[...]

Thanks to you and Doug for taking the time to explain things for me.

It appears I can create whatever structure I like (records, symbols  
without colons, etc.) simply by copying and modifying the definition  
of ssax:xml->sxml. I could even make a custom parser for RDF/XML. So  
I am not stuck now.

Best
Jonathan Rees


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