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Re: Naive Question about NS 1.1

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• Subject: Re: Naive Question about NS 1.1
• From: james anderson <james.anderson@s...>
• Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:09:15 +0200
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Richard Tobin wrote:
> 
> >>   <xsl:template match="x:child">
> >>
> >> The parser doesn't know that x:child is going to be interpreted as a
> >> QName; it can't distinguish it from something like:
> >>
> >>   <db:read file="c:mydatabase">
> >>
> >> Only the XSLT processor knows what the attribute means.
> 
> >Since it knows that as soon as the element tag has been parsed, it could
> >well act on that knowledge and discard it.
> 
> I can't follow that - too many "it"s.  What knows what as soon as the
> element tag has been parsed?

In the cited passage, "the XSLT processor".

>                              The parser knows nothing about what the
> attribute means.  [The parser] has to pass the downstream processor both the
> attribute value and the namespace map, so that the downstream
> processor can interpret the attribute (or part of [the attribute]) as a QName if
> [the downstream processor] wants to.  The downstream processor can discard the map
> if [the downstream processor] doesn't need [the map], or once [the downstream
> processor has] interpreted the element.  But as long as the document is passed on,
> the namespace bindings have to be preserved.

The last assertion confuses me. Where all qualified names have been
interpreted, that is, where "[the downstream processor has] interpreted
the element", what does a relation between prefixes and namespace names mean?

> 
> -- Richard
>

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