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Re: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?

• From: Michael Ludwig <mlu@as-guides.com>
• To: 'XML Developers List' <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:07:46 +0200

Michael Kay schrieb:

>> What's the alternative to scopedness? One global scope?
>
> I think it would have been better not to have prefixes at all.
> They cause a lot of the complexity in the model. Declare all the
> namespaces, perhaps with document scope, and perhaps allowing the
> "document type" to define the set of namespaces implicitly; require
> each namespace to have a definition that defines all the local names
> present in the namespace; require any reference to a name that's
> present in more than one of the namespaces to be explicitly qualified
> with the namespace name. And then use shorter namespace names, along
> the lines of Java package names, so that writing the full name is
> typically 40 characters rather than 120.

<?xml version="1.0"?><!-- still 1.0, of course -->
<!DOCTYPE stylesheet [
   <!NAMESPACE xsl PUBLIC org.w3.xslt><!-- contains XSLT -->
   <!-- The prefix is optional; it's only needed for disambiguation. -->
   <!NAMESPACE SYSTEM "moin.dtd"><!-- SYSTEM identifier, no prefix -->
   <!NAMESPACE milu de.milu.miau (eins zwei param)><!-- declared here -->
   <!NAMESPACE de.milu.wau (drei vier)><!-- no prefix here -->
]>
<stylesheet version="2.0">
   <xsl:param name="bla"/><!-- xsl:param vs. milu:param -->

   <template match="@*|node()">
     <copy><apply-templates select="@*|node()"/></copy>
   </template>

   <template match="eins">
     <copy><apply-templates/></copy>
     <zwei><value-of select="$bla"/></zwei>
     <moin> nein </moin><!-- element from moin.dtd -->
     <milu:param>42</milu:param><!-- prefix, but global -->
     <vier/>
   </template>
</stylesheet>

Michael Ludwig

• References:
  • Re: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
    • From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
  • Re: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
    • From: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
  • Re: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
    • From: rjelliffe@allette.com.au
  • Re: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
  • Re: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
    • From: Laurens van den Oever <laurens@xopus.com>
  • Re: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
    • From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@redhat.com>
  • RE: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
    • From: "Jim Tivy" <jimt@bluestream.com>
  • Re: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
    • From: Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@gmail.com>
  • RE: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
    • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
  • Re: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
    • From: Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@gmail.com>
  • Re: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
    • From: Michael Ludwig <milu71@gmx.de>
  • RE: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
    • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
  • Re: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
    • From: Michael Ludwig <mlu@as-guides.com>
  • RE: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
    • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>