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Jonathan Robie wrote: > Joe English wrote: [...] > > Most XML applications don't care about the [in-scope namespaces] > > property either, and can be safely stored in a database that fails > > to preserve it. > > I mostly agree. > > But if you store and retrieve an XSLT styleheet or W3C XML Schema, > wouln't you gripe if the namespaces needed to interpret them were lost? I'm not sure why I'd store an XSLT stylesheet inside an XQuery database in the first place -- what sorts of queries (other than "retrieve whole stylesheet") can usefully be performed on them? But if I did, I wouldn't expect the [base URI] property to be preserved either, so would have to be careful with things like <xsl:include/> and <xsl:import/> as well ([in-scope namespaces] isn't the only issue here!) I think I'd be most upset about whitespace in tags being lost. But really, ISTM a WebDAV server or plain old filesystem is the best way to store and retrieve XSLT stylesheets, and anything else that's more "document-oriented" than "data-oriented". I'm quite certain that I'd never do anything with a W3C XML Schema, so I don't really care what happens to their [in-scope namespaces] property. --Joe English jenglish@f...
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