Re: XPath draft comments

[James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Ferguson wrote:
 
> Implementing the namespace axis is tricky because DOM level 2 doesn't really
> support namespace nodes.

DOM Level 2 exposes namespace declarations as attributes for
compatibility with DOM Level 1.  Thus all the information needed to
provide namespace nodes is available in the DOM Level 2.

> Is the namespace axis really all that important?

It's needed to do a stylesheet that displays the XML source (like IE's
default stylesheet).

> In case anyone's curious, my XSL implementation is at 
> http://www.caucho.com.

Looks interesting.  Using JSP and XSLT together is a very powerful
approach.

James


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