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Re: question about implements-prefix


not a problem Don, after puzzling over it for awhile before i posted
anything, i don't think that i could have been anymore confused, and i think
that i finally have the answer i was looking for...

thanks to everyone, especially Don, Chris and David

Todd

Todd Binder
todd_binder@hotmail.com



----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Bruey" <dbruey@creativesolutions.com>
To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:11 PM
Subject: RE: [xsl] question about implements-prefix


> Sorry for my answer, Todd, see Chris' explanation.
>
> Red-faced Don
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Binder [mailto:todd_binder@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:59 PM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: [xsl] question about implements-prefix
>
>
> Don, now i am confused, i get the namespace concept, if i were to change
it
> from user:current_date to other:current_date, it wouldn't work because the
> function current_date is defined within the user namespace.
>
> my question was purely with the URI, and what it's significance was...
>
> in my case i set it to todd@test.com which is not a valid email address,
but
> that didn't seem to be a problem.
>
> i was merely wondering if it needed to be a valid URI or not....
>
> - todd
>
> Todd Binder
> todd_binder@hotmail.com
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Bruey" <dbruey@creativesolutions.com>
> To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:09 PM
> Subject: RE: [xsl] question about implements-prefix
>
>
> > In the case of the original question, the namespace URI mattered. Not
> > putting in the correct URI for the "user" namespace meant that the
> extension
> > function in question would not be recognized.
> >
> > In my example, I mentioned XSL's namespace as an example of something
that
> > if you change it, your stylesheet won't work as you might expect, which
is
> > an easy example to try to see what happens when you just put in any old
> URI.
> > When I teach XML, I use that very example to show how namespaces work
and
> > what URIs mean to processors, and it's a pretty effective example.
> >
> > Don
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@nag.co.uk]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 1:43 PM
> > To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> > Subject: Re: [xsl] question about implements-prefix
> >
> >
> >
> > > It absolutely matters what you put there.
> >
> > Not really, in that if you put _any_ string there except the namespace
> > names of xslt and msxsl the stylesheet will act in exactly the same way.
> >
> > David
> >
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