Re: [wsbpel] Issue - 46 - Namespace for the document fragment representing a part

[David RR Webber - XML ebusiness <Gnosis_@compuserve.com>]

Sanjiva,

I think you will find that your assertion at bottom
on namespaces is slightly misleading.

We've been grappling with this exact same issue over in the
CAM TC.  Here's what happens - if the XML content has a 
default namespace declaration in it - then the XPath parser
will demand prefixes, even if you don't use them!

This is an ugly bug and side-effect.

The only recourse we have is to just warn people - do 
not use namespace declarations - unless you absolutely 
need them.

There are very few instances where you really need 
namespaces in XML streams - paradoxically one is
CAM templates - since they have embedded markup
instructions to the CAM processor - and of course 
these need to be discarded from the overall content
processing.

Namespaces and their side-effects are something 
that XML is going to have to live with for a longwhile
downstream.

Fortunately tools like CAM remove the need to use
namespaces in business transaction documents -
therefore making their processing consistent and
reliable.   Simple plain-vanilla XML is my preference
everytime.

DW.
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Message text written by "Sanjiva Weerawarana"
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XPath 1.0 does not require qualification unless the element/attribute
itself is qualified. How else could it work??

What's the validation for unqualified stuff? I don't know of any myself.
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