RE: Namespace prefixes

[Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ReemaD@riskinc.com [mailto:ReemaD@riskinc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 2:10 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Namespace prefixes
> 
> 
> So i am confused whether xsl prefix has any significance or 
> not. If anybody has tried this then please help me out.

I don't think this question has a simple answer.  I know that the
DOM working group has wrestled with the question of how to define
a clean interface to namespaces for a long time.  We initially
made  the "prefixes are not significant" interpretation, then
found that it's not quite so simple.  XPath/XSLT has a rather
different conception than the DOM, and prefixes *are* significant
in Canonical XML.  Furthermore, as readers of this list know,
XML Schemas may have introduced some new complexities.

I think the answers will come from experience, and we need to 
share our experiences so that something like the Common XML Namespaces
document can be written.


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