xml-dev - CSS and Namespaces

[Sasha Nakhimovsky <sasha@mail.colgate.edu>]

Where is the proper relationship between CSS1 and Namespaces
defined/codified?  Has it been?

Suppose you have an xml file like this:
======
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="coll.css" type="text/css"?>

<collection xmlns:nss="http://www.n-topus.com">
  <nss:item type="stamp">
     <nss:num>S-1873-001</nss:num>
     <nss:country>Italy</nss:country>
     <nss:year>1873</nss:year>
  </nss:item>
</collection>
=======

and you provide a stylesheet, coll.css, like so:

=======
collection {
  display: block;
}
item {
  display: list-item;
  float: none;
  border: none;
}
num {
  display: block;
  font-weight: bold;
  color: blue;
  text-decoration: underline;
  cursor: pointer;
}
country {
  display: block;
  font-style: italic;
}
year {
  display: block;
  font-family: monospace;
  font-size: 8pt;
}
=======

The observed behavior is that IE5.0 ignores the stylesheet
and just runs the text content of the file together,
while Mozilla 6 recognizes it.  Both ignore the stylesheet
if the stylesheet selectors include the prefix, even though
one might have expected that a CSS stylesheet will adopt the
XML 1.0 view of QNames, not the Namespace view.

Clarifications badly needed.


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