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The best practice is not to design your XML in such a boneheaded manner
in the first place not coming up with overcomplicated rules of how to
process it.
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 6:50 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>
> I'm well aware that there _are_ ways to process these things.
> (In SAX, all things are possible, or most things, anyway.)
>
> My question is the relationship between can and should. We
> seem to be short of a few best practices in this zone, and I
> worry that a lot of people take this kind of thing for granted.
>
> If there's an area of namespace practice that needs further
> exploration, it's most likely how best to mix and mingle
> parts from different namespaces in widely-distributed
> vocabularies, not just how to process particular minglings in
> particular environments.
>
> dareo@microsoft.com (Dare Obasanjo) writes:
> >I'm sorry but I can't see what problem it is you are
> stating. If I was
> >processing your latter XML document and needed only elements
> from the
> >"http://example.com/a"; namespace I'd write
> >
> ><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> >xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> >
> ><xsl:template match="//*[namespace-uri()='http://example.com/b']">
> > <xsl:value-of select="name()" /> <xsl:apply-templates />
> ></xsl:template>
> >
> ></xsl:stylesheet>
> >
> >or
> >
> >declare namespace a = "http://example.com/a";
> > let $i := document("container.xml")
> > return for $a in $i//a:*
> > return name($a)
> >substituting the call to name() with whatever processing code was
> >needed.
> --
> Simon St.Laurent
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> errors, all fall down!
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