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[docbook] Re: Namespace
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/ "Jeroen Alblas" <jeroena at infosupport dot com> was heard to say:
| Is it possible to add a namespace to my XSLT that identifies docbook elements?
No.
| (Primary purpose is to make the intellisense work, but shouldn't it be more common to use a namespace and prefixes for DocBook elements in XSLT, than not use it?)
Any feature that applies only to elements in an explicit namespace is broken.
(IMHO, naturally.)
| If so, is there a common namespace prefix for DocBook (db: for instance) like fo:
| for XSL-FO?
DocBook elements are not in a namespace. If we were starting from
scratch today, I'm sure we would put them in a namespace, but DocBook
has been around for more than a decade. It long predates namespaces.
Putting DocBook in a namespace today would break every existing tool.
That's a huge backwards compatibility problem. We may someday feel
that there is a compelling reason to do so, but no one has articulated
one yet.
Be seeing you,
norm
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Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com> | All our foes are mortal.--Val?éry
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ |
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |
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