[sc34wg3] CTM vs. TMQL: namespace prefixes

[Robert Barta]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 02:47:54PM +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> 
> >> Not a big issue, just a reminder that CTM and TMQL should use the same
> >> (default) namespace prefixes.
> >>
> >> For XML Schema Datatypes (http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#):
> >>
> >>   - TMQL: "xsd"
> >>   - CTM:  "xs"
> >>
> >> I like the "xs" prefix more (shorter, used by XQuery), but that does
> >> not matter; we need a just a common prefix.
> > 
> > Let's go with "xs".
> 
> Sorry for belated comment, but other things in past months distracted me
> from watching TM progress more closely.
> 
> Why CTM doesn't use
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes
> 
> namespace for XML Schema datatypes? It is quite common to use prefix
> "xsd" for this datatypes only namespace and "xs" for "full" XML Schema
> namespace.

That was also my understanding, hence the choice in TMQL. OTOH, it is
"just a prefix"....

\rho