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In Working group email http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xsl-wg/2006Jun/0135.html it was suggested that in 5.7.3, the sentence Namespace fixup may, if necessary to resolve conflicts, change the namespace prefix contained in the QName value that holds the name of an element or attribute node. did not make it sufficiently clear that "changing the prefix" included the option of adding or removing a prefix. The editor was asked to propose a clarification. The simplest option seems to be to add immediately after the quoted sentence, "This includes the option to add or remove a prefix." And in 11.3, change In the event of a conflict this prefix (or absence of a prefix) may subsequently be changed during the namespace fixup process to In the event of a conflict a prefix may subsequently be added, changed, or removed during the namespace fixup process
The accepted proposal involved a change to section 11.3. In fact the identical text was present in both sections 11.2 and 11.3, and the change was applied only to section 11.2. Erratum E18 will be raised so that the change is applied in section 11.3 as well.
The WG accepted this change at the telcon on 15 Nov 2007, and the editor was asked to prepare an erratum.
Erratum E18 which fixes this issue has been published, so the issue can now be marked resolved and closed.