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Subject: Re: [xsl] Namespaces best practice in XML From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 15:28:57 +0100 |
> at I need this stylesheet to be > as accessible to as many people as possible. Having to prefix all source XML > elements in the XSLT when that prefix doesn't physically exist in the XML > adds a level of complexity that non-namespace-savvy developers might find > confusing. I think people get used to this pretty quickly (if they look at xsl for very long at all) if in the stylesheet you declare a prefix a: and then select a:foo that means select foo in that namespace, whatever prefix (including no prefix at all) is used in the source file. the source file doesn't have to use the same prefix a:. This is just a general rule: there is really nothing special about the so called default namespace here. Although having said that, a lot of people did apparent;y want to use non-prefixed element names to refer to namespaced elements in XPath so in XPath2 (and so in XSLT2) you will be able to set the default Xpath element namespace, and have everything that you want. > use a version of HTML which doesn't require a namespace declaration which of course is _all_ versions of html. Namespaces don't apply to HTML, only to XHTML (all versions of which do require the elements to be in a namespace, sadly different namespaces for XHTML 1 and XHTML 2) David ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________
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