Namespaces (Was: Re: [Xpath-ng] Thoughts on work products)

[bryan]

> XPath 2.0 alters the way namespace nodes work -- namespace nodes don't
> have a parent element, which means that you basically end up with the
> same number of namespace nodes as you have namespace declarations
> (which breaks backwards compatibility but I think it's fairly rare to
> get the parent of a namespace node, so the break is fairly minor).
> XPath 2.0 also deprecates the namespace axis and provides functions
> for accessing in-scope namespaces instead.
Damn I must have missed that, or forgot it since I haven't read the
specs for about three months, can you point me to part where this gets
discussed in the spec, and which spec is relevant since the whole thing
is spread out over so many documents it's hard to keep straight.