Re: question about implements-prefix

Thanks David, that answers my question

sorry about the capitals, i merely wanted to point out the section i was
referring to.

- todd

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 1:17 PM
Subject: Re:  question about implements-prefix


>
> > o does the value following XMLNS:USER have any actual meaning?  or could
it
> > just as easily type the following?
>
> IT'S CONFUSING IF YOU USE CAPITALS AS XMLNS: is an error.
>
> It's a namespace name, so like any namespace name it should have the
> syntax of a URI reference, but it has no particular connection with any
> resource that is identified by the URI, and most (all?) XSL engines
> don't check for URI syntax and accept any string. Actually following a
> slightly strange W3C annoncement that followed the namespace rec (by a
> long time:-) it's best to use an absolute rather than a relative URI as
> they decided that the behaviour for relative uri references was
> explictly undefined ('cause they couldn't agree what its definition
> should be, even though the namespace rec itself was quite clear that
> namespace names should be compared as strings, some people argued that
> they should first be made absoluet before being compared)
>
> This is just the same as, for instance
>
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>
> The XSLT namespace has name http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform
> but it doesn't matter what resource, if any, is identified by that URI.
>
> David
>
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