RE: Dumb question from a newbie on XSLT in IE5

["John E. Simpson" <simpson at polaris dot net>]

At 02:23 PM 03/30/2000 -0700, Narahari, Sateesh wrote:
>...when we say
>
>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>
>We are specifying an URI. Does the XSLT processor go and fetch this URI or
>is it just hard coded?.

Nothing is fetched. (It *may* be, but there's nothing in the namespaces 
spec to require it.)

In fact, if you do something like attempt to go there with a browser, you 
basically get a placeholder page informing you that "this is an XML 
namespace." There's not even a requirement that you will see that much.

The xmlns:xsl attribute above simply functions as (yes) a hard-coded 
"trigger" for an XSLT processor. It signals that this stylesheet's markup 
is expected to conform to the XSLT 1.0 recommendation; processors which 
don't know anything about the XSLT 1.0 rec will therefore probably not 
process the stylesheet correctly (e.g. produce the blank-screen effect if 
generating HTML). The original IE5 is notorious (at least in these parts) 
for not recognizing that namespace declaration, and that's why the previous 
poster suggested replacing the above namespace declaration with:
         xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl"
...because IE5 (original) does recognize that trigger.
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