Re: [xsl] strip-spaces

[Steven Ericsson-Zenith <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I'd still want elements that are not processable to generate an  
error. I'm just thinking of a way to design multiple style sheets for  
processing documents that contain elements from a variety of name  
spaces - which we see fairly often these days. We have unique  
identifiers for name spaces - it would be useful to have associated  
style sheets for standard or specified translations.

Validating against a suitable schema is interesting but it doesn't  
provide a pointer to the methods to process the elements in a  
namespace. I imagine that I could have a convention in schemas that  
would provide such a pointer. Now that might actually work.

With respect,
Steven

On Feb 6, 2008, at 8:22 AM, David Carlisle wrote:

> > Is there a way to specify that a style
> > sheet processes only the elements of a particular name space?
>
> what do you mean by "processes only the elements of a particular  
> name space"
>
> do you want any element not in that namespace to generate an error  
> or to
> be silently ignored but have its children processed, or something els?
>
> The first case you could do by validating against a suitable schema,  
> or
> by having default templates something like
> <xsl:template match="*">
>  <xsl:message terminate="yes">go away</xsl:message>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="myns:*">
>  default behaviour for myns
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> <xsl:template match="myns:foo">
>  specific behaviour for myns:foo
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> The second case is XSLT's default behaviour.
>
>
>
> > I now begin  to wonder how I specify operations on elements in a
> > particular name space
>
> the namespace is part of the element name, so you almost always  
> refer to
> elements in a particular namespace in xpath (unless using the *
> wildcard)
>
> > but from what Michael has said it seems they are simply
> > "syntactic sugar"
>
> namespaces are an intrinsic part of the model, but the namespace
> declarations are just syntax (cf attribute values being part of the
> model but choice of " or ' around attribute values is just syntax.
> <a xmlns="z"><b></a> and <a xmlns="z"><b  xmlns="z"></a>
> generate identical input trees, just with different surface syntax  
> that
> is not observable using xpath, just as the differences between those  
> and
> <a xmlns='z'><b></a> and <a xmlns='z'><b  xmlns='z'></a>
> with ' instead of " is not observable.
>
> David
>
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