Subject: Re: Namespace incompatibility b/n XPath 2.0 Data Model and XPath 1.0 (Was Re: XML schema general convert with XSLT (namespaces..))
From: "cutlass" <cutlass@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:58:21 +0100
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very interesting point.
> Another (minor) potential trap is that in XPath 2.0 a
> namespace node has no parent.
still unclear re this behavior,
>
> There are two consequences of this decision:
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> 1) ../namespace::* will no longer find all namespace nodes in whose scope
is the
> element, whose attribute is the current node.
ouch !
> 2) more generally, this is an example, showing that the promise will not
be
> fulfilled that existing XSLT 1.0 transformations will work in XSLT 2.0 as
in XSLT
> 1.0
i think there is always a bit of tweaking, but your above example is a very
painful example.
i can see implementators putting in a special switch to force namespace
copying to all descendant nodes
yuk, jim fuller
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