10175 2010-07-15 15:37:48 +0000 Using multiple default namespaces 2014-05-15 14:00:32 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT XSLT 3.0 Working drafts PC All CLOSED LATER P2 enhancement --- 1 john.snelson mike jirka public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 36921 0 john.snelson 2010-07-15 15:37:48 +0000 There are often a number of function namespaces that a stylesheet will use with frequency. All but one of these namespaces currently need qualifying when used, since there is only one default function namespace. In other languages like Java, importing a namespace will bring the names from that namespace into the current scope. This allows them to be used without qualifying them with the namespace. I propose that we add a new attribute (maybe "using", or "using-function-namespaces"), which lists a set of namespaces, NS. When referencing a function with a QName L that doesn't have a prefix, the namespaces in NS are tried in turn looking for a function with a localname of L. If two or more such functions exist, an error is raised. To avoid the error the user should qualify the function reference with a prefix. 36924 1 mike 2010-07-15 16:00:27 +0000 Noted: as an extension of this idea: (a) similarly, any prefix could be bound to a set or list of namespaces (b) the same mechanism could be used for names other than function names. For example if two variants/versions of an XML vocabulary have been defined in different namespaces, a QName could effectively refer to the union of the two namespaces, allowing the same query/stylesheet to work with both. 46957 2 jirka 2011-03-24 15:22:34 +0000 I like Mike's extension. It should be also possible to include names which are not in any namespace into "search path". For example to handle DocBook 4.5 (not in namespace) and 5 (has namespace) at the same time. 49349 3 mike 2011-06-08 21:30:43 +0000 The minutes of the Prague F2F (March 2011) record: DECIDED at 7 Oct. 2010 telcon: to close bug 10175 (for now) with status LATER. Which I am now belatedly doing.