--On Sunday, December 19, 1999 5:15 PM -0500 John Robert Gardner <jrgardn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am I misinterpreting the relevance of 
> 
> <xsl:namespace-alias> 
> 
> for translating teh stylesheet use of a given
> namespace, in turn then to translate teh stylesheet use of a given
> namespace--"whatever:"-- into another in the result tree node tree per the
> distinction of 
> 
> stylesheet-prefix="http://www.somewhere.com/mynamespace"
> 
> for the stylesheet, and 
> 
> result-prefix="http://www.somewhere_else.com/theirnamespace"
> 
> for the result's URI, per instruction?

Yes, I think you are.
This is used when for example you want to manipulate an xsl stylesheet
as an input document, so there is an ambiguity as to whether "xsl:" is
an instruction or something to place in the output.

I don't think it helps regarding the issue of having to live with
a single default namespace that applies to both input and output,
so that one or the other has to have explicit prefixes everywhere
if they differ.

-mda


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