Re: [xsl] Identifying Namespace Declaration

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thangavelu Srinivasan wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> I am using customized namespace for my XSL. I am using libxml to parse.
> How to identify that namespace whether its working or not.
> In my case, URI defined in the namespace which is not connecting to
> that website (i have checked the website in the separate browser). so
> what does it mean?
> How does XSL works if namespace defined in that particular URI
> (http://) goes offline?
>
> Any suggestions are welcome

This is a general XML namespaces question. Check here for a FAQ and many 
insights: http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/NamespacesFAQ.htm

The URI for a namespace is just a name, the choice for a URI is done 
because it is easily made universally and globally unique (check the web 
for pros and cons of this). It can be of the form of a URL, but it is 
not supposed to link to any existing location. There is no parser around 
that will ever check the (possible) physical location of a namespace 
URI. Only very few namespace URIs will actually point to an existing 
online location.

A question: why would you want to customize the XSLT namespace? It won't 
be XSLT anymore.

Cheers,

-- Abel Braaksma