Re: Attributes with Intent (and namespaces)

Chris Maden (crism@oreilly.com)
Tue, 7 Jul 1998 20:44:28 -0400 (EDT)

[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

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