Re: [xml-dev] Namespace: CSS in addition to prefix (was: CSS instead of Namespace)

What happens when the same name appears in two different namespaces?

-Rob


On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 15:45 +0200, Dmitry Turin wrote:
> Manos,
> 
> >> I propose to specify namespace not only in tags themselves,
> >> but also in CSS, what is more convenient in much cases.
> 
> First, let it will be
> "Namespace: CSS in addition to prefix".
> 
> MB> CSS namespace awareness is crucial for proper styling of XML documents.
> MB> MB> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-namespace/
> 
> Styling will be applied after resolving namespace:
> either when
> 
> s {
>   namespace: xinclude;
>   element:   include;
> }
> t {
>   namespace: xinclude;
>   element:   fallback;
> }
> 
> is in css-file, or when that is in separate ns-file, i.e.
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet    type="text/ns"  href="my-namespaces.ns"?>
> 
> ---
> 
> MB> Does not look right. This will hide namespace information from the XML
> MB> parser
> 
> If parser does not want to read it. Certainly.
> 
> MB> unless it is able to parse CSS as well.
> 
> How long ago parsers was not capable to interpret namespace prefix ?
> But community forced it to parse.
> It's the same with additional file.
> 
> I.e. gold is to separate secondary information from primary content!
> 
> 
> 
> Dmitry Turin
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