Re: Was: [xsl] mode and moved to Namespaces

[ac <ac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brandon,

Languages and communications, like all beings and things, are not 
perfect.  The best that we can do is find errors and try better 
approximations.  I thank you for finding these errors and focusing me 
for a better approximation.

Regards,

Andre



> I think Andrew was just clarifying that it was you who said "I have
> stylesheets that use in excess of 80 namespaces...", since the way it
> was quoted seemed to inadvertently suggest that Andrew said it.  The
> following "I don't think I've ever had more than 8 namespaces in a
> single stylesheet" was Andrew's own statement, offered in contrast to
> the statement for which he appeared to have been credited.
>
> And people complain that reading and understanding other people's code
> (XSLT or otherwise) is too hard!  At least there's a
> widely-agreed-upon specification for the meaning of that (most of it,
> anyway) and limits on the syntax, unlike natural languages. ;)
>
> -Brandon :)
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 12:45 AM, ac<ac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Andrew, I have not found that quote from the archives and I am curious as to
> > what was the context and what could my mistake have been, or just how long
> > ago was that?
> >
> > > On 15 April 2011 09:37, Michael Kay<mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>    wrote:
> > > > On 15/04/2011 09:31, Andrew Welch wrote:
> > > > > > I have stylesheets that use in excess of 80
> > > > > > namepaces, for various purposes.
> > > > Ouch. Perhaps I need to start revising my assumption that the number of
> > > > in-scope namespaces will always be small enough to make a linear search
> > > > acceptable.
> > > Just for the archives it was 'ac' that said that.... I don't think
> > > I've ever had more than 8 namespaces in a single stylesheet.