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Re: Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: Un-ask the

• To: norman@a...
• Subject: Re: Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: Un-ask the
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:28:04 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0208021315140.26794-100000@g...>(message from Norman Gray on Fri, 2 Aug 2002 13:33:08 +0100 (BST))
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> removed non-XSLT-namespace _attributes_ it wouldn't be much use, but
> that whole business works because XSLT processors are more-or-less
> required to use Simon's best-practice recommendation, and take
> unprefixed attributes in XSLT elements to be also in that namespace.

But only if you use your own private definition of what it means to be
in a namespace. XSLT processors can not assume that the version
attribute in
<xsl:stylesheet version=...
is in the XSLT namespace because
if the attribute was in the XSLT namespaec it would be equivalent to
<xsl:stylesheet xsl:version=...
and that's an error.

> Badly expressed -- I only meant that the concept `global attribute'
> doesn't seem at all valuable, and appears to only confuse things.

The concept of "global attribute" as defined by the namespace spec is the
same as the concept of "attribute in a  namespace". Whether or not it is
useful depends on your view of how useful namespaces are.

David
 

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