- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:47:50 -0500 (EST)
- To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
- Cc: <www-xpath-comments@w3.org>
At 2:19 PM +0000 2/2/02, Michael Kay wrote: >I agree it's open to misuse, but there are cases where it is genuinely >useful. I've heard of a number of cases (though I can't cite them) where >people have used different namespaces to represent versions or variants of >an XML vocabulary, but where the variants are sufficiently close to make it >possible to write stylesheets that can handle all of them. > Didn't one of the earlier drafts of XHTML do this? Yes, checking I see that it was http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/PR-xhtml1-19990824/#normative However, I recall that this caused a huge hue and cry and was fixed before it went to Rec. I don't think this is very common in practice. And as someone else pointed out, if you really needed this you could always do <xsl:template match="*[local-name(.)="whatever"]"> ... </xsl:template> Let's just not make this too easy. I don't want anyone tripping over this by accident. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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