Re: Namespace dispatching

At 18:35 2002 02 20 -0800, Paul Prescod wrote:
>Julian Reschke wrote:
>> 
>>...
>> 
>> For instance, I may have an XHTML document, which somewhere inside contains
>> XInclude instructions. I'd have to run this through an XInclude processor
>> before it can be passed to the browser.
>> 
>> So, while the XSLT problem can be worked around, I don't think this can be a
>> general solution....
>
>Well there is currently no solution to this problem.

Right, I think this is the XML Processing Model problem.

> Multiple levels of
>top-level elements would actually be one solution that isn't entirely
>inelegant. It is a big problem if you see XInclude and XSLT in the same
>document to know which to apply first.

Right, processing model problem.

> I think that's part of why
>XInclude hasn't taken off.

I think part of the reason is that it *just* became a CR minutes ago.
See http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-xinclude-20020221/ .


paul

Received on Thursday, 21 February 2002 11:26:05 UTC