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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Funny you should ask, I stumbled on this literally a few days ago while implementing the QName function for xmlsh<o:p></o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.xmlsh.org/FunctionQName">http://www.xmlsh.org/FunctionQName</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The results were not obvious but they did make sense. I didn’t dig into the specs, but what Saxon does (and now xmlsh which uses saxon) makes sense. When converting a QName to a string, the same thing takes place as if you were to create an attribute or element.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If there's a prefix its used and if not no prefix is used. The URI is unused.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So your result produces <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a>local</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Eg. in xmlsh (which calls saxon's xquery)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>$ echo <[ <a>{ QName("uri","local") }</a> ]><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a>local</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think this makes perfect sence *in hindsight*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>----------------------------------------</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David A. Lee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:dlee@calldei.com"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue'>dlee@calldei.com</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.xmlsh.org"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue'>http://www.xmlsh.org</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> talk-bounces@x-query.com [mailto:talk-bounces@x-query.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Daniela Florescu<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 24, 2010 1:24 PM<br><b>To:</b> talk@x-query.com Talk<br><b>Subject:</b> [xquery-talk] QName in content<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am 14 years into XQuery, and this language still puzzles me.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>(I guess we need the surprise factor to keep the interest alive :-)<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>What do people think the following query <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><a>{ QName("uri","local") }</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>(a) does return according to the spec<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>and <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>(b) should return based on your own user expectation ?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Is everybody OK with the current specification ? Any opinions ?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in advance, best regards<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dana<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>