RE: [xsl] A colon is not allowed in the name

Subject: RE: [xsl] A colon is not allowed in the name
From: "Deborah Pickett" <debbiep-list-xsl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:30:30 +1100 (EST)
On Wed, March 25, 2009 19:00, Michael Kay wrote:
> XSLT will only handle input that is well-formed XML conforming to the
> Namespaces recommendation.

I'm curious: why?  Normally the XSLT standard is pretty standoffish about
parsing (and serialization), and leaves such matters to the XML parser. 
Provided that the XSLT processor can be given a DOM tree as input, and can
give a DOM tree as output, why would it care that the source document uses
namespaces or not?

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