Re: [xml-dev] Concerned about the increasing reliance on XPath

> XPath 3.0 introduces the syntax "uri":local enabling you (or more likely, a
> piece of software) to write paths with no dependency on an external
> namespace prefix binding.

Excellent! That could considerably help solve the problem I was
describing earlier in the thread.
----
Stephen D Green



On 10 May 2011 00:15, Michael Kay <> wrote:
>
>> The problem is defining the uri mapping in the xpath... thats been an
>> ongoing issue for quite a while now, and doesn't look like its been
>> solved in xpath 3.0.
>>
>
> XPath 3.0 introduces the syntax "uri":local enabling you (or more likely, a
> piece of software) to write paths with no dependency on an external
> namespace prefix binding.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
>
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