Re: [xsl] 2.1 Must Allow Matching on Default Namespace Without Explicit Prefix

["Steve Muench" <Steve dot Muench at oracle dot com>]

| http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xslt20req-20010214
| 
| 2.1 Must Allow Matching on Default Namespace Without Explicit Prefix

Evan,

This requirement comes from scores and scores of XSL-List
questions about users who start with a document like:

  <foo xmlns="urn:something">
    <bar>baz</baz>
  </foo>

and then try to do:

  <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="..." xmlns="urn:something">
    <!-- 
     | A naive XSLT user expects this to match
     | their <foo>/<bar> combination from the doc above
     +-->
    <xsl:template match="/foo/bar">
     :
      <!-- OOPS. But it doesn't match -->
     :
    </xsl:template>
  </xsl:stylesheet>

To someone like yourself who is an XSL veteran, it may
never be a mistake that you make, or the workaround is
so burnt into your brain that you don't think twice about it,
but the WG perceived this issue as a major "learnability" hurdle.

______________________________________________________________
Steve Muench, Lead XML Evangelist & Consulting Product Manager
BC4J & XSQL Servlet Development Teams, Oracle Rep to XSL WG
Author "Building Oracle XML Applications", O'Reilly
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orxmlapp/



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