Subject: Re: handling namespaces in advance Re: [xsl] namespace required in transform From: "James Fuller" <james.fuller@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:39:54 +0100 |
> > I don't see why the actual syntatic construction of xml could > > not itself be abstracted( instead of angle brackets, why not > > slashes...etc ) and defined, a sorta schema for base/physical > > format; maybe this is a route of introducing binary xml....ok > > yes there are issues all over the place, just a thought. > > This is precisely why XSLT and XPath define the data model as an > abstraction. You don't have to create the data model from a source XML > document, you can create it from anything. If you want to define a > format that is like XML except that the namespace declarations are > contained in the end tags, you are free to do so, so long as you can > parse it into the XPath data model. Whether it will catch on or not is > another matter... hmmmm, sometimes I think the W3's best intentions get buried in the language.....wow....completely missed this point ! sorry to extend this thread, this is a very interesting point....which is particularly relevent in a current project that is hitting performance issues, and I am desperate for any fallback positions. so I assume I have to read http://www.w3.org/TR/query-datamodel/ again, and this time I have to 'get it'...any other pointers to related work would be greatly appreciated....but after 5 minutes of googling....I suspect yet again, that I am walking down a lonely path. thx for making yet another concept clear to my poor little mind. cheers, jim fuller XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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