Re: patterns and multiple namespaces

> > Is there a more elegant solution that I've missed?
>
> there are solutions short of using three stylesheets but none are very
> nice.
> eg replace
>
> match="h1" by
> match="*[name(.)='h1' and (starts-with(namespace(.),$html-common-part))]"
>
> in all patterns of the stylesheet.

This approach might be bearable if XPath or XSLT were modified to make it
easier:

<xsl:ns prefix="h" uri-start="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml"/>
...
<xsl:template match="h:h1">...

but that's *definitely not* going to happen in 1.0 and probably not ever.

Another approach would be to add to all XHTML elements an attribute
"schema-family" with value "XHTML". It could be #FIXED in the DTD so no one
would ever have to type it, but you could say:

match="h1[schema-family='XHTML']"

James
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