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Re: HTML + CSS to XML + CSS - what about namespaces?

  • From: Oliver Becker <obecker@i...>
  • To: xml-dev@x...
  • Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 10:18:17 +0200 (MET DST)

html namespaces
Hi Lisa,

> Before:
> <a href="http://www.w3.org/">online</a>
> 
> After:
> <html:a html:href="http://www.w3.org/"
> xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">online</html:a>
> 
> My question is this:
> The initial html document may (and probably would) have had accompanying CSS
> style sheets, but now these style sheets refer to elements as they were
> before transformation (ie. without the explicit namespace). Is there any way
> to incorporate namespace into CSS, or do I need to recreate the style
> sheets?

Two thoughts:
1. The simplest way may be perhaps using a default namespace declaration:
   <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" href=...."> ...
   I.e. you have to modify your XSL stylesheets accordingly.
   Now you have all your HTML elements within the HTML namespace and the
   CSS isn't affected.
2. Regarding your given example: I think this should be
   <html:a href="http://www.w3.org/"
           xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">online</html:a>
   i.e. the href attribute is *not* prefixed. I belongs to the a element
   of the HTML namespace and that's it.

Comments?
Cheers, Oliver


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