Re: namespace prefix weirdness

On Aug 17, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Jeni Tennison wrote:

> From previous mails, I think that you're eventually generating XHTML,
> which again you want to be in the default namespace on output. Again,
> you can use a separate stylesheet module for the code that generates
> the XHTML in order to avoid xmlns attributes all over your stylesheet
> but still have no prefix in the output.
OK, this makes sense, and also makes the code more maintainable.  
Thanks for the thorough explanation!
Ultimately, I need to handle a variety of options.  On output, I'm most 
interested in being able to generate both XHTML and TeX (because FO 
processors are just not good enough).  I guess that would require 
completely different stylesheets?
There's also some guys working with bibliographic stuff in TEI who are 
proposing changes in the bibliographic representation that will make it 
look a lot like MODS, in fact.  So, DocBook v5 will be namespaced, and 
so will TEI 5.  They're also being designed to allow easier 
mix-and-matching of structures between the two schemas.  So, it would 
seem sensible to try to make the stylesheet(s) flexible enough to 
handle either.
Finally, I also need to start working with parameters so that I can the 
code I've written so far would correspond to, say, a cite-class 
parameter of "author-year," and there'd be other code to deal with, 
say, footnote/endnote styles, or the numeric style.  Alas, I only have 
so much time to code this stuff aside from writing the book which I 
need to format with it!
Bruce