Namespace troubles

An oversight? The latest draft addresses the fact that XPointer wasn't especially namespace-aware. XPath didn't have to be - XSLT provides the context needed for that, while XLink doesn't.
A kludgy but workable solution They added an xmlns piece that needs to precede your XPointer to map namespace prefixes to URIs:xmlns(x=http://example.com/foo) xpointer(//x:a)