Re: Parsing Curies from XSL in Firefox

HI Mark,

No, I mean that under Firefox, one cannot access xmlns: DOM elements  
at all from XSLT.  This is because they are not attributes and Firefox  
does not support the namespace axis in XPath.  The Mozilla Developer  
Center lists namespace: as "unsupported" on:
   https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPath/Axes/namespace

I would think that this would be a major problem for anyone trying to  
use XSLT on documents with RDFa from within the browser.

Regards,
Dave


On Sep 19, 2009, at 3:25 AM, Mark Birbeck wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Do you mean that in Firefox you can't use
> substring-before()/substring-after() and so on?
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:42 AM, David Wood <david@zepheira.com>  
> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We are working on a project that needs to perform parsing of RDFa  
>> in an
>> XHTML file from XSL within a browser.  IE 8 seems to be the only  
>> browser
>> that supports our full pipeline (which is a pain, since we are all  
>> working
>> on Macs and Linux!).
>>
>> Firefox /almost/ works, but namespaces (curies) apparently cannot  
>> be parsed
>> from XSL in that browser.
>>
>> Does anyone know if the Firefox team plans to fix this soon?  Or  
>> does anyone
>> know who we should ask?  Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
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