Re: [xsl] The use of a variable in use-attribute-sets attribute

[Daniel Veillard <Daniel dot Veillard at imag dot fr>]

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:26:05AM -0700, Dan Diebolt wrote:
> Appendix C of teh XSLT spec states:
> 
>    "Any of the elements declared in this DTD may have attributes whose 
>    name starts with xmlns: or is equal to xmlns in addition to the 
>    attributes declared in this DTD."
> 
> I take it that every xsl element can have an attribute that starts
> with xmlns. Admittedly this isn't seen on most xsl elements. What
> does it mean when it occurs on say an xsl:if element?
> 
>    <xsl:if test="position()=last()" xmlns:ns="http://www.foo.org/";>
> 
>    </xsl:if>

  Simply that you can use this namespace for childs of the xsl:if element,
this can be useful, isn't it ? This can also be one one the extension prefix
and maybe be used for an attribute on the xsl:if itself (the use of 
such an prefix for documentation or QA comes to mind).

Daniel

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