• To: "Emmanuil Batsis \(Manos\)" <mbatsis@h...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: namespace reprise
• From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>
• Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:03:15 +0200
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <3D63A857.2010908@h...>

> From: Emmanuil Batsis (Manos) [mailto:mbatsis@h...]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 4:49 PM
> To: Dare Obasanjo; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  namespace reprise
> 
> 
> Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> 
> > 
> >There's nothing special about the default namespace. 
> >
> Besides that it is the default namespace thus has no prefix assosiated 
> with it..
> 
> >If you're XML processing depends on giving the default namespace 
> special semantics then you misunderstand how Namespaces in XML works. 
> >
> 
> A short sighted evaluation of my message, requierments and XSLT. In 
> XSLT, one has to be aware of the namespace to be encountered since match 
> expressions for templates are not evaluated in run-time. If  XSLT 
> anticipated the default namespace, much of this would not be a problem, 
> which was my original point.

Maybe you could explain what your actual problem with XSLT's handling of default namespaces is. I fail to see the problem yet.

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