Re: A consequence of <p:xslt>

On 2/22/07, Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@sun.com> wrote:
>
> A few meetings ago, we decided that the names of steps would be
> NCNames. I don't think that works anymore.


I don't remember that.

The current specification says QName for pipeline names and step
names.


If I run XSLT with
>
>   <p:xslt>
>
> presumably if I import a pipeline library that contains a pipeline
> named "FormatDocBook", I run that pipeline using the new syntax with:
>
>   <FormatDocBook>
>
> Except that I probably want to put that in a namespace so that my
> DocBook formatting can be distinguished from yours:
>
>   <norm:FormatDocBook>
>
> but now I need to write
>
>   <p:pipeline name="norm:FormatDocBook">
>
> in the pipeline library.
>
> Or have I missed something?


Hmm... if we changed that, that was the wrong decision regardless
of this recent decision to use type names as step element names.

...but that's my opinion...



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