Re: [dita] DITA and Namespaces? A Potential Compromise Solution for DITA 1.3?

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

On 22.5.2012 21:56, Eliot Kimber wrote:

> I guess I'd rather have a more compact syntax at the cost of a little
> processing. Moore's law continues to hold but verbose syntax is always
> verbose.

Maybe I missed something, but this "little processing" would mean that
for each @class attribute you would need to:

1. Find all "DITA namespace declarations" (dita_ns:* attributes) which
are in scope

2. Based on this replace prefixes in @class attribute by corresponding
namespace URI

3. Do a match on replaced @class with namespace URI + original element
name after :

This is actually quite complex thing to do. In XSLT 2.0 you can create
user defined function to do this and use it for template matching. But I
can't imagine how to do this in XSLT 1.0.

				Jirka

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