RE: [xml-dev] Wikipedia on XML

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

> 
> I'm sure there is a lot of good new stuff in XSLT 2.1 and 
> it's great to see that it is moving on. The way I understood 
> Rick, however, which may well be wrong, was that he did not 
> want to move the OOXML documents to a new namespace (which 
> your example seems to be doing), but to parametrize the XSLT 
> stylesheet to cope with the new OOXML namespace his instances 
> have already been moved into.

On the whole, I suspect that if people change the namespace, then something
else has probably changed too. So I think the pipeline approach where you
first normalize the XML into one version and then do the real processing is
often a better approach than trying to handle both versions within the same
stylesheet, even if there were the ability to parameterize the namespaces.

> 
> As the very last resort, my shameless DPH advice would be:
> 
> cp -r ooxml-xsl-v1 ooxml-xsl-v2
> perl -pi -e 's#old-ooxml-ns-uri#new-ooxml-ns-uri#g' ooxml-xsl-v2/*
> 
> That would work instantly.

But it's error prone: there might be code lurking around that rejects the
document if it's in the wrong namespace, for example.

Regards,

Michael Kay
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