Subject: RE: [xsl] Can one element have more than one namespaces? From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:35:47 +0100 |
> More or less. It is really a mis match of terminoligy. > The namespace spec does not admit to a concept of a "null namespace" > it says that in the absence of any declarations <A/> is not in a > namespace. However, XPath, in common with some other systems needs > _something_ to return for the namespace, to denote the lack of a > namespace. It uses the empty string for this so if you are using > such a system it is (perhaps) natural to refer to elements > that are not in a namespace as being in the "empty" or "null" namespace. Yes. Technically, according to the Namespaces Rec, element A is not in a namespace; according to the XPath model, it therefore has a null namespace URI, and when an element has a null namespace URI, the value of the namespace-uri() function is an empty string. All clear now? Mike Kay Software AG XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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