RE: How is this part of the XSLT specification to be interpreted?

[Linda van den Brink <lvdbrink@xxxxxxx>]

It means that you cannot do this

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

<xsl:template match="p[list]" someattribute="">
	<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

Because the someattribute attribute is not part of XSLT but it is in the
null namespace (the namespace with no prefix). 

But you CAN do this

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:linda="http://www.twinnity.com";>

<xsl:template match="p[list]" linda:someattribute="">
	<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

Because the someattribute attribute, while it's not an XSLT attribute, is
also not in the null namespace, but in the linda namespace. XT doesn't
reject this, nor does saxon I expect. 

Linda

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen [mailto:TRA@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 2:24 PM
> To: XSL-List (E-mail)
> Subject: How is this part of the XSLT specification to be interpreted?
> 
> 
> 
> I am looking at how to make XSL documents self-documenting, 
> and I fell over section 2.1 in the specification
> 
> "An element from the XSLT namespace may have any attribute 
> not from the XSLT namespace, provided that the expanded-name 
> of the attribute has a non-null namespace URI. The presence 
> of such attributes must not change the behavior of XSLT 
> elements and functions defined in this document. Thus, an 
> XSLT processor is always free to ignore such attributes, and 
> must ignore such attributes without giving an error if it 
> does not recognize the namespace URI. Such attributes can 
> provide, for example, unique identifiers, optimization hints, 
> or documentation."
> 
> My current experience with XT and Saxon is that they complain 
> fiercely if an incorrect attribute is used.  How is the text 
> above to be interpreted? 
> 
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