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 > Where such values are specified to be constants, is there a reason not > to parse them immediately rather than to wait until the template element > is processed. You seem to be assuming that XST processing is interleaved with the XML parsing of the stylesheet. This isn't always the case, MSXML for example aways just uses a complete DOM as the input stylesheet: that DOM could come from anywhere. If the stylesheet was parsed at all (rather than having been built using dom methods) the whole stylesheet is parsed before the XSLT engine ever sees it. > the only (obvious) way to predict the > result for all documents is to restrict the value domain to eliminate > prefixes. For example, by restricting the domain from QNames to NCNames in something like the name attribute of xsl:element then elimnating prefixes doesn't seem to change anything, even if it's an NCName it is subject to the default namespace so is just as "variable" as a name with a prefix, it just happens to have a prefix that is the empty string (in which case, as a matter of surface syntax, you also miss off the ":") It's different for QNames in XPath (1.0) expressions as there NCNames have fixed interpretation as being in the null namespace. But your comment seems to imply that in the current specification you think there is something unpredicatble (rather than something that you think is a poor design). It is not at all clear to me that this is the case. An XSLT stylesheet can always generate a result tree containing the namespace information required. there is some unpredicatbility over the linearisation but all allowed linearisations would have sufficient information to ensure that any required namespace declarations will be present in any linearisation of the output. David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. 
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