Re: Are there stupid questions about documentation in

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:07 AM, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/05/2010 13:15, Alex Muir wrote:
>>
>> Q:: Would it be a good or bad idea to have a documentation doc or desc
>> attribute allowed within the attributes of xsl elements something like
>> this:?
>
> That is allowed in xslt already (even xslt 1). Any attributes from any
> foreign namespace are allowed. the error message that you showed was not
> saying that the namespaced attribute wasn't allowed at that point, it was
> saying that the namespace wasn't declared. the XSLT stylesheet needs to be
> namespace well formed with all prefixes declared.

Even more fundamental:  The* XML document* (which the XSLT stylesheet
must be) must be wellformed, which , among other things, includes the
requirement that every namespace prefix being used should be declared
in such a scope that it is visible at the place of usage.


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> David
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