Attributes with Intent (and namespaces)

[Chris Maden]

[David Megginson]
> No -- or at least, I imagine not.  There are two more interesting
> solutions:
> 
> 1. Use something similar to DSSSL modes, one for each namespace:
> 
> <namespace ns="www.company.com/para">

[...]

> 2. Associate a separate stylesheet with each namespace, through some
>    mechanism yet to be determined.

I don't see a need for either of these.  XSL stylesheets shouldn't
need to be appreciably different from other XML documents.  In other
words, my stylesheet might have

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml:namespace ns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-XSL" prefix="xsl"?>
<?xml:namespace ns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-HTML4" prefix="html"?>

<xsl:rule pattern="html:p">
  <paragraph>
    <xsl:children/>
  </paragraph>
</xsl:rule>

... and my document might have

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml:namespace ns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-HTML4" prefix="h"?>
<mydoc>
  <h:p>This is an <acronym>HTML</acronym> paragraph.</h:p>
</mydoc>

The XSL processor should be able to identify that "h:p" in the
document is the same as "html:p" in the stylesheet, and act
accordingly.

-Chris
-- 
<!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN">
<!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN"
"<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487
<USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek>

xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk)