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Re: Looking for an example of a name colliision
Arjun Ray <aray@n...> writes:
> "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...> wrote:
> | [Bill de hÃ?ra]
>
> | > - in my work with XML I've never run across a collision problem
> | > that seemed to require namespaces. I wondering whether they're rare
> | > or whether the markup I dela with is unusual.
> | >
> |
> | The one that leaps to my mind is using an xslt stylesheet to create another
> | xslt stylesheet. [...] now that I bring it up, there will probably be a
> | lot of solutions popping up (I can see using special attributes to indicate
> | whether something is intended to be a literal result element or not)
>
> Yup. It can be as simple as that. The XSLT case is actually easier than
> the general problem, because there are no overlaps. All XSLT needs is the
> moral equivalent of Lisp's quote/backquote operator.
That would need to be an XML mechanism, not an XSLT one. XSTL has
<template match="foo">
<element name="template">
<apply-templates/>
</element>
</template>
The problem is that you don't want to use it all the time; literal
result elements are very handy. So you could say that except for those
elements enumerated in the XSLT spec, all other ones will be treated
as literals.
The problem /then/ is that any new version of the spec that adds new
elements will be backward-incompatible because it might interpret
literal elements as XSLT instructions.
Ari.
PS Why doesn't xml-dev send proper reject messages? I accidentally
sent a reply form an unsubscribed address and didn't know the message
didn't make it to the list[1] until Arjun pointed my attention to it.
[1] This even sounds funny. It should have been "didn't know it was
rejected", but then again if it were, I would have known.
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