Subject: RE: statically known namespaces
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:31:20 +0100
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> Why is it that XQuery has inbuilt namespaces such as "xs",
> but XSLT does not?
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> I would have thought that XSLT 2.0 could benefit from having
> "xsl" and "xs" predefined, any thoughts?
An XSLT stylesheet is an XML document, and XML requires all namespaces to be
explicitly declared.
This enables a stylesheet to be processed using standard XML tools. (You can
use XQuery to search stylesheets, but you can't use it to search queries!)
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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