RE: [xsl] statically known namespaces

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Subject: RE: [xsl] statically known namespaces
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:31:20 +0100

> Why is it that XQuery has inbuilt namespaces such as "xs", 
> but XSLT does not?
> 
> I would have thought that XSLT 2.0 could benefit from having 
> "xsl" and "xs" predefined, any thoughts?

An XSLT stylesheet is an XML document, and XML requires all namespaces to be
explicitly declared.

This enables a stylesheet to be processed using standard XML tools. (You can
use XQuery to search stylesheets, but you can't use it to search queries!) 


Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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Re: [xsl] statically known namespaces, (continued) David Carlisle - Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:23:34 +0100 Wendell Piez - Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:49:36 -0400 Michael Kay - Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:47:41 +0100 David Carlisle - Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:22:54 +0100 Michael Kay - Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:31:20 +0100 <= omprakash . v - Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:35:42 +0530 Florent Georges - Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:12:58 +0200 (CEST) Jacoby, Peter R. - Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:24:47 -0400

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Re: [xsl] statically known namespaces, (continued)
- David Carlisle - Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:22:54 +0100
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- omprakash . v - Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:35:42 +0530
  - Florent Georges - Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:12:58 +0200 (CEST)
- Jacoby, Peter R. - Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:24:47 -0400

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