RE: Version number in XSLT namespace URI

Subject: RE: Version number in XSLT namespace URI
From: DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 07:52:12 +0100
 James Clark wrote:
>The discussion in XML Plenary about whether XHTML should use 1 
>namespace
>URI or 3, summarized by Jon Bosak at:
>
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-plenary/1999Aug/0091.html
>
>leads me to wonder whether we've made the wrong decision in putting the
>version number in the XSLT namespace URI.  Would it be more in keeping
>with the Namespaces Rec to do:
>
>  <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform";
>version="1.0">

Certainly makes more sense practically.

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0";>
is distinctly ugly.
Surely namespaces and versions are / should be seperate and
distinct items of information?

Was there any logical reason to combine them?

regards, DaveP


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