Re: TPAC topic: Extending XInclude

"Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com> writes:
> Paul said we could say that all attributes on the xinclude element
> that are in the xinclude namespace should be copied to the "root"
> included node(s).  That one thing would allow a follow up process
> such as Norm's XSLT to do the necessary fixup.  If one did xinclude
> processing after validation, one could give those extra attributes
> defaults in the schema so that they didn't need to be authored.

I still feel like it might be better to say that all attributes in
*any* namespace get copied over. That avoids any contention over the
local names of the attributes. DocBook can have db:transclusion-policy
without walking on anyone else.


                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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