Re: [xml-dev] Defining non-WXS datatypes

Bob Foster wrote:
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> From: "james anderson" <>
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> > > I think Jeni is talking about a datatype library that defines an
> internal,
> > > canonical representation of QNames used for validation. Forming the
> > > representation requires document context.
> >
> > That does not follow from her text.
> 
> True. She might have meant the other. But in that case, they wouldn't be
> QNames.
> 
yes, no referentially transparent expression for an instance of the
(namespace-name X local-part) relation is a QName. by definition. that's one
of the things which makes these discussions so confounding.

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