I was under the impression that XSLT could only process XML
conforming to the Namespaces in XML Recommendation, but I
can't find anything in the XSLT 1.0 specification that
strictly prohibits the input to have to be classic (i.e.,
non-namespace) XML. It requires a source tree, but how the
source tree is build from an actual source and what its
specifications are, if any, I can't find it.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#data-model
"XML documents operated on by XPath must conform to the XML Namespaces
Recommendation [XML Names]."
PS: it seems that at the time of XSLT 1.0, an effort was
started to create an XML Query Data Model
(http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-query-datamodel-20010215/#elemNo
de). This, too, only allowed QNames. However, it never made
it to a Recommendation and work was not in sync with work on
the XSLT 1.0 specification (unverified).
This was an early draft of what eventually became the XDM model used by
XQuery 1.0, XPath 2.0, and XSLT 2.0. Might not be recognizable from the
content, but you can trace the ancestry if you're determined!
Regards,
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
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