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Bug 28960 - Casting to a no-namespace type
Summary: Casting to a no-namespace type
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
Classification: Unclassified
Component: XQuery 3.1 (show other bugs)
Version: Last Call drafts
Hardware: PC All
: P2 minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jonathan Robie
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Reported: 2015-07-16 14:23 UTC by Michael Kay
Modified: 2015-07-16 16:06 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Kay 2015-07-16 14:23:52 UTC 
3.17.5 says, in a Note,

<quote>
An instance of an atomic type that is not in a namespace can be constructed in either of the following ways:
</quote>

In fact from 3.0 there is a third way, viz. using a constructor function named using the Q{uri}local convention:

Q{}hatsize(32)