[tei-council] tei: prefix in @match attribute

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 16 Oct 2014, at 00:13, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:

> 
> uses a tei: prefix in the @match attribute, to point to the parent element. Why does it do that? Do we assume that the default element namespace in the XML document is not inherited by the XPath context for the match expression? 


technically, i think the answer is yes. the XPath is independent of the doc, I’d say.

don’t worry, no-one will ever use it :-}

sebastian