Subject: RE: XHTML rendering: xmlns Attribute in every template?
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 11:32:20 +0100
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Why not just put xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" on the xsl:stylesheet
element?
Michael Kay
> -----Original Message-----
> From: christof.hoeke@xxxxxxx [mailto:christof.hoeke@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 26 May 2004 10:03
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: XHTML rendering: xmlns Attribute in every template?
>
> hello,
> i am working on a quite simple custom XML to XHTML
> stylesheet. in the XSL template i put the XHTML xmlns in the
> top level html element.
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> so every result element in this template is also in the XHTML xmlns.
>
> the problem is that in every other template that i put into
> the stylesheet every result element again has to be put in
> the XHTML xmlns. so the whole stylesheet is more or less
> cluttered with
> <b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">... stuff.
>
> the only other solution would be to put a
> xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" in the xsl:stylesheet
> element and prefix all result elements with that
> <h:b>...
>
> is the above the way it works? is there any simpler way of
> dealing with namespaces or this the only solution? esp with
> generating HTML it seems odd to use a namespace prefix.
>
> thanks
> chris
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