Thanks for the clarification, David. I think I was trying to draw the
first conclusion based on what I remember from my experiments with LRE
stylesheets. whoops!

~ Scott


-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 7:04 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  where is an exhaustive reference for xslt?


> It's an unqualified attribute in this case, yes. Since the parent
> element is in the xsl: namespace, an unqualified attribute ends up in
> that namespace as well.

Unprefixed attributes are always in no-namespace, they do nt inherit the
namespace of their parent (or the default namespace).

> I seem to remember that my stylesheets break if I prefix the version
> attribute in the <xsl:stylesheet> element. However, if you need to put
a
> xd:version attribute in the top element for other reasons, you'd need
to
> prefix that one.

XSL stylesheets that have a top level element of stylesheet or transform
in the namespace http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform must have a
version attribute (no prefix). Conversely stylesheets using the "literal
result element as stylesheet" syntax must have a (prefixed) attribute in
the namespace http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform with local name
version.

David


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