"Arnold, Curt" <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com> writes: > James Clark pointed out to me that XSLT actually had a mechanism > (namespace nodes) for accessing the namespace mappings so it is > possible to resolve QNames without additional information which > resolves my initial motivation for this comment. > > However, I believe that some kind of hint of the anticipated prefix > (suggestedTargetPrefix attribute on schema element?) would be useful > in documentation generation and use by schema-aware editors. For > example, XSLT could suggest using "xsl", schema could suggest "xsd", > etc. I feel strongly that this would cause more harm than good, by encouraging the misunderstanding that the prefixes have _any_ non-local significance whatsoever. Even one otherwise useful application which welded in a prefix would be a major waste of everyone's time! ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/Received on Thursday, 22 June 2000 18:07:46 GMT
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