1608 2005-07-15 00:01:52 +0000 can namespaces be removed from an environment by undeclaring? 2005-09-06 13:00:50 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT Formal Semantics 1.0 Last Call drafts PC Windows 2000 CLOSED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 fred.zemke simeon public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 4684 0 fred.zemke 2005-07-15 00:01:52 +0000 2.1.4 Notations for environments It says "Also, note that there are no operations to remove entries from environments." What about the XML 1.1 ability to undeclare a namespace? Doesn't this require actually deleting something from an environment? 4949 1 simeon 2005-07-19 23:25:32 +0000 This seems heavyhanded to change the whole environment behavior in order to cover that one case. One possible way to deal with this issue would be to treat the case where a namespace prefix is bound to "" in the environment as being unbound (or use a 'unbound' value in the environment. - Jerome 4951 2 Norman.Walsh 2005-07-19 23:52:14 +0000 The Formal Semantics document will address this issue along the lines Jerome outlined below, using either "" or the symbol 'unbound' to deal with this case. This is the official response of the XML Query WG and XSL WG. We appreciate your feedback on the XML Query specifications. Please let us know if this response is satisfactory. If not, please respond to this message, explaining your concerns. If so, please mark the comment CLOSED.