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In 4.7.3.1 computed element constructors dynamic evaluation, the specification describes the semantics of namespace construction. However, the specification doesn't seem to define how the new XQuery copy namespace (as defined in seciton 5.9) mode is determined and used here. Is this a bug or expected ?
This is a bug. I believe we intended to describe how namespaces are copied. This is missing right now. We could do one of two things: (1) add a note saying we will not formally specify this (2) add a section to cover this, which requires a bit more work - Jerome
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