Re: Re: [exslt-manage] xmlns:exslt

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:15, Daniel Stodden wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 17:42, Daniel Stodden wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 16:36, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 15:20, Daniel Stodden wrote:
> > > > hi.
> > > > 
> > > > i may be nuts, but could it be that most (all) of the stylesheet modules
> > > > importing js implementations via func:script in the distribution package
> > > > are missing a definition of the exslt namespace?
> > > > 
> > > > e.g.
> > > > 
> > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > > > <stylesheet
> > > >   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> > > >   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> > > >   xmlns:func="http://exslt.org/functions"
> > > >   xmlns:math="http://exslt.org/math"
> > > >   version="1.0"
> > > >   extension-element-prefixes="math"
> > > >   math:doc="http://www.exslt.org/math">
> > > >  
> > > >   <func:script language="exslt:msxsl" implements-prefix="math"
> > > > src="math.exp.msxsl.xsl"/>
> > > >   <func:script language="exslt:javascript" implements-prefix="math"
> > > > src="math.exp.js"/>
> > > >  
> > > > </stylesheet>
> > > > 
> > > > so if exslt:javascript is supposed to be a qname, what URI does it refer
> > > > to? i suppose it's /common.
> > > > 
> > > > is it?
> > > 
> > > I looked through some function defs and I agree this is a significant
> > > problem.  I had not noticed it because I implement EXSLT directly and I
> > > don't use the templates.  All the templates should have the added
> > > namespace declaration, but I hesitate to make it
> > > 
> > > http://exslt.org/common
> > > 
> > > I think that has the effect of adding too much normative force to the
> > > languages used in the sample implementation scripts.  I suggest instead
> > > 
> > > http://exslt.org/non-normative/implementations
> > > 
> > > Thoughts?
> > 
> > it is indeed an interesting problem. 
> 
> hi all.
> 
> i would just like to know whether any final decision has made regarding
> this thread.

I'm hoping for more discussion or feedback before making any changes.


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