Re: Questions on the new XSL spec (section 2.7.12)

[James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"G. Ken Holman" wrote:
> 
> At 98/12/29 13:01 +0700, James Clark wrote:
> >There's no way to do this currently.  To handle this, you would need a
> >pattern that matched namespace nodes, and an element that created
> >namespace nodes, so you could do something like:
> >
> ><xsl:element name="{name(.)}">
> >  <xsl:for-each select="namespace()">
> >    <xsl:namespace name="{name(.)}">
> >       <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> >    </xsl:namespace>
> >  </xsl:for-each>
> ></xsl:element>
> 
> I found this very helpful ... but I can't find either name() or namespace()
> documented in the WD.  Are these (and any others?) proposed for the next
> WD?  Is there any confidence in their being accepted?

name() is in the WD. namespace() and xsl:namespace aren't, and haven't
yet been formally proposed.  Another way to handle this is to model
namespace nodes as attribute nodes by making up a magic namespace URI
for the xmlns prefix.

James


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