Since I am not a member of the XSL working group, I have not seen
the working draft of DSSSL. But I believe that this is basically
the right way to go.
We probably need some syntax sugar. I would like to introduce some
constructs such as this:
<rules-for-namespace ns="http://www.company.com">
<!-- Bunch of rules for this namespace here. Names do not have to
be qualified. They are all assumed to belong to this namespace. -->
</rules-for-namespace>
I might even want to reference to an external stylesheet. For example:
<rules-for-namespace
ns="http://www.company.com"
style="http://www.company.com/mcomapny.xsl" />
<!-- rules in the referenced stylesheet are assumed to apply
to this namespace -->
By doing so, many stylesheets can reuse a set of rules designed for a
single namespace. I think that this is in the spirit of the namespace
extension.
(I have to admit that tables are harder if columns and text elements belong
to different namespaces.)
Makoto
Fuji Xerox Information Systems
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