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

[Eliot Kimber <ekimber@rsicms.com>]

For XSLT 1 you'd simply have to do the look directly in your match
expression--you wouldn't be able to hide it behind a function.

So it could be done in XSLT 1, but it wouldn't be pretty.

In any case, it's a moot point for DITA 1.3 since we decided we're not going
to pursue this at this time.

Cheers,

E.

On 5/22/12 3:26 PM, "Jirka Kosek" <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote:

> 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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