XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Ed Davies <edavies AT nildram.co.uk>]

Steve Loughran wrote:
> > I'm trying to resolve Qnames, and a fun one is when the body of a
> > message is something like
> >
> > <something>:Localname</something>
> >
> > that is, there is no namespace prefix. I'm not entirely sure that is
> > legitimat, but QNames are silly as it is, I dont want to overturn the
> > whole of the XSD type system just yet.

Elliotte Harold replied:
> That's not a legal QName. It is namespace well-formed XML because 
> :Localname is not a name, but there's no way the string :Localname can 
> be treated as a QName.

It's not really relevant here by such strings are sometimes valid
QNames in the RDF world.  E.g.,

  http://www.dajobe.org/2004/01/turtle/#qname

That might at least give some hints on sensible interpretations.

Ed.