RE: [xsl] Namespace problem

[Marc Schneider <mschneider@xxxxxxxxx>]

So, if I walk up the DOM tree from my current node to the root and take the 
union of the namespace nodes at each DOM Node will I have the set of all 
namespace node?

Marc

At 06:41 PM 9/13/2004, you wrote:
> > My reading of Dave's response was that in Xalan-C the namespace axis
> does
> > return all in-scope namespaces, but that you cannot reliably obtain the
> > parent element of a namespace node. So rather than accessing the parent
> of
> > the namespace node using the parent axis, you need to save it (the
> parent
> > element) in a variable. Is that correct?
>
> Yes, that's correct.  You get all of the in-scope namespace nodes, but
> they are not necessarily parented as you would expect.
>
> It's really a DOM-style implementation, and the namespace axis just goes
> up the tree and gathers up the nodes.  So, this breaks when you really on
> generate-id() as a hack to implement node identity, and also in the case,
> where you use the parent axis.  In the first case, there's no work-around,
> while in the second case, there is.
>
> Dave