Re: [xsl] Announcement: Dexter - XSL Transform Generation Tool

["Michael Dykman" <mdykman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 17, 2008 11:21 AM, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 12:22 AM 1/17/2008, Alessandro wrote:
> >I do agree with Abel that you should try to put the "hints" attributes
> >in a separate namespace, it really helps the page designer if the code
> >is not highlited with errors everywhere, and most editors are ok with
> >extra sttributes as long as they are not in the xhtml namespace.
>
> Not only that, but if the utility really can be used to create
> stylesheets with arbitrary XML results, the target format might well
> have attributes named the same as the "hints" attributes. The whole
> idea of namespaces, and the reason they're useful despite all their
> complications, is that they serve to resolve clashes like this.
>
No argument on that point.  As I mentioned, that was one of the corners I cut
to get a working prototype but I will be addressing that in a release in the
not-too-distant future.


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