NameSpaceDSSSL

The DSSSL Name Space

URI: http://www.askemos.org/2000/NameSpaceDSSSL

The DSSSL name space is available in XSLT stylesheets. It has a long way to go to become fully DSSSL compliant and probably never will. (I see assumtions in the DSSSL standard, which I, personally, regard questionable.)

The reason for it's existence are a) that the XSLT transformation is not yet completed and b) many features are simply practical.

This vague definition makes it:

1. volatile, unusable for long living objects
2. the base for prototyping and temporary fetures

Elements

XSLT Counterparts

Element names which also exist in the XSLT namespace behave at least basically as the XSLT counterpart would do. They can be mixed with XSLT elements.

copy-of

The select attribute copy-of element can either contain a DSSSL style sheet, an Scheme/DSSSL expression oder the literal value #CONTENT. The latter means that the content of the element will be used instead of the select attribute.

form

Other Elements

All elements not described so far are short hands for the often repeated sequence element, xsl:attribute, dsssl:copy-of.

This short form can specify attributes to elements. All elements from the namespace, which are have no other definition, are inserted literally into the output, except that their attributes from this namespace are created without namespace and their value is computed as an expression of the atttribute value.

Expression Language

All expressions support:

• Scheme
• a subset of dsssl
• several srfi
• additionall library stuff