xml-dev - Re: new to XML

[mark hu <mark@fintrack.com>]

Well, thanks, Mike - I'll try to update NT4/IE5 - I believe, XSLT processor
just behave like the way : SOAP object learns and pick up services - so the
URI do have the relative specification for XSL and only that valid URI
 includes XSL specs ... that's also why if the URI is wrong - everything's
messed up ... ) - it'll be nice to add the ability to make XSLT processor
detect which URI is valid and which one is not - just like the NSLOOKUP tool
can tell you all the details about a target ....



mark
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Brown <mbrown@corp.webb.net>
To: 'mark hu' <mark@fintrack.com>
Cc: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 3:38 PM
Subject: RE: new to XML


> Mark Hu wrote:
> > Actually, what's the exact diference between :
> >
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl">
> > and
> > <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0'>
>
> This should help.
>
> xmlns:xsl="foo" is saying that the URI 'foo' is bound to the prefix 'xsl'
> and that this prefix can henceforth be used to relate elements to the
> namespace 'foo'. Thus the elements that have special meaning to an XSL
> processor (as being XSLT instructions) can be distinguished from those
that
> don't. That is to say, the instructions xsl:stylesheet, xsl:template,
> xsl:value-of are known to the XSL processor *not* by virtue of the prefix
> being 'xsl', but by the fact that those elements are associated with a
> *particular* namespace URI that the processor knows about.
>
> Originally there was just the "XSL" working draft which specified that the
> namespace URI to use was http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl. When the April 1999
> working drafts of XSL(FO) and XSLT arrived, the XSLT namespace URI became
> http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0. When the October 1999 proposed
> recommendation was released, the URI changed to
> http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform and the version="1.0" attribute
became
> mandatory for the xsl:stylesheet element. The version attribute was not
used
> with the older URIs. The November 1999 final version of XSLT 1.0, which
was
> adopted by the W3C as a Recommendation, uses the latter URI and the
version
> attribute.
>
> Now for your problem, all versions of IE ship with an XML/DOM/XSL toolkit
> called MSXML 2.0, the meat of which is in a MSXML.DLL file in your Windows
> system32 directory. MSXML 2.0 supports only a subset of the Dec 1998
working
> draft of "XSL". For more information about how to upgrade your MSXML, see
> the unofficial FAQ at http://www.netcrucible.com/xslt/msxml-faq.htm
>
> ...and please continue this thread on the xsl-list, not xml-dev. See
> http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/ for info how to join.
> (note: Reply-To on this message)
>