[xsl] XSLT 3.0: Questions about the Statically-known namespaces and default element/ type namespace for the evaluation context of the target expression of <xsl:evaluate>

Subject: [xsl] XSLT 3.0: Questions about the Statically-known namespaces and default element/ type namespace for the evaluation context of the target expression of <xsl:evaluate>
From: "Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 04:21:46 -0000
Hi,
The 2nd bullet of section "10.4.1 Static context for the target
expression"
(http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-xslt-30-20141002/#evaluate-static-context)
of the 2nd Last Call of the W3C "XSLT 3.0" specification says:

"b"Statically known namespaces and default element/type namespace:

b&if the namespace-context attribute is present, then its value is an
expression whose required type is a single node. The expression is
evaluated, and the in-scope namespaces of the resulting node are used
as the statically known namespaces for the target expression. The
binding for the default namespace in the in-scope namespaces is used
as the default namespace for elements and types in the target
expression.

[ERR XTTE3170] It is a type error if the result of evaluating the
namespace-context attribute of the xsl:evaluate instruction is
anything other than a single node.

b&if the namespace-context attribute is absent, then the in-scope
namespaces of the xsl:evaluate instruction (with the exception of any
binding for the default namespace) are used as the statically known
namespaces for the target expression, and the value of the innermost
[xsl:]xpath-default-namespace attribute, if any, is used as the
default namespace for elements and types in the target expression.

Note:

XPath 3.0 allows expanded names to be written in a context-independent
way using the syntax Q{namespace-uri}local-name"


My question is why in the second case described in this section (when
the namespace-context attribute is absent), the binding for the
default-namespace is derived in a different way, than in the first
case?

What will happen if the namespace-context attribute is *present* and
it selects the <xsl:evaluate> instruction? Will then the rule for
deriving the default-namespace binding of the first sub-bullet be
used, or will the rule of the 2nd sub-bullet be used? As per the
current text it seems that the rule in the first sub-bullet must be
used. But this is exactly the same node as in the 2nd sub-bullet and
despite this identity, different rules for the default namespace
binding must be used. Was this really intended?

What default namespace binding will be used in the second case (when
the namespace-context attribute is absent), if there is no
[xsl:]xpath-default-namespace attribute specified anywhere in the
stylesheet? The specification doesn't define this at all.


I would greatly appreciate any answer to these questions.


--
Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev

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