Notes/Domino 6 and 7 Forum : Setting xmlns="http://www.lotus.com/dxl" in the stylesheet doesn't address the problem.

Notes/Domino 6 and 7 Forum

Setting xmlns="http://www.lotus.com/dxl" in the stylesheet doesn't address the problem.

Setting xmlns="http://www.lotus.com/dxl" in the stylesheet doesn't address the problem.
Posted by ~Umberto Nongeroson on 29.Oct.02 at 01:28 PM using a Web browser
Category: Applications Development

Release: 6.0

Platform: All Platforms

Hi Glenn,

Setting a default namespaceof "http://www.lotus.com/dxl" in the top element of the stylesheet puts all contained elements that do not explicitly have a namespace prefix into that default namespace.

If you use a DOM parser to process a stylesheet using "http://www.lotus.com/dxl" as the default namespace, for example, you could see that the <HTML> tag in the stylesheet belongs to the "http://www.lotus.com/dxl" namespace. This will be meaningful to programs that process the stylesheet and explicitly care about the "http://www.lotus.com/dxl" namespace, but that is not what you are trying to achieve here.

Namespaces are hard to grok. It took me a few readings of the spec and lots of examples before I understood just how little they do. I let assumptions about what I thought they should be get in my way of understanding their limitations.