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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Namespace wildcards
 I agree it's open to misuse, but there are cases where it is genuinely useful. I've heard of a number of cases (though I can't cite them) where people have used different namespaces to represent versions or variants of an XML vocabulary, but where the variants are sufficiently close to make it possible to write stylesheets that can handle all of them. Didn't one of the earlier drafts of XHTML do this? Yes, checking I see that it was http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/PR-xhtml1-19990824/#normative However, I recall that this caused a huge hue and cry and was fixed before it went to Rec. I don't think this is very common in practice. And as someone else pointed out, if you really needed this you could always do <xsl:template match="*[local-name(.)="whatever"]"> ... </xsl:template> Let's just not make this too easy. I don't want anyone tripping over this by accident. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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