I have found name spaces to be completely frustrating. Big companies (like
Fedex) don't handle them "properly" in that if a namespace applies to the
document they don't carry it through for each block. I finally gave up on
using libxml2 namespaces (which are correct -- if the rest of the world would
read the specs) -- I simply use the add attribute feature to put my names
spaces in, and use ns1:tag or ns2:tag as the tags I set. It is a hassle at
first, but once you start coding that way, you can handle all the (incorrect
and goofy) ways that people handle XML and name spaces.
Eric
-Original Message-
From: xml [mailto:xml-boun...@gnome.org] On Behalf Of Nikolai Weibull via xml
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2018 12:50 PM
To: xml@gnome.org
Subject: [xml] XInclude and in-scope namespaces
Hi!
I’m trying to do something like the following:
a.xml:
http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; href="b.xml"
xpointer="xpointer(*/*)"/>
b.xml:
and then
% xmllint --xinclude a.xml
This, however, doesn’t render the output I was expecting, namely
but rather
That is, the in-scope namespaces of the “b” element aren’t being copied over.
I can’t determine from the standard whether this is as intended or not.
Section 4.5.4 talks about “namespace fixup”, but I can’t for the life of me
understand what they’re trying to say, see
https://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/#namespaces
I tried looking at other implementations, but Xerces doesn’t support the
xpointer attribute and I couldn’t find any other XInclude implementations.
Anyway, is this working as intended, or should in-scope namespaces be included?
Nikolai
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