[jdom-interest] First pass at Namespace revision[eg]

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 10:45 PM +0200 3/30/01, Jochen Strunk wrote:


>A request is processed sequentially by MenuModule, NewsModule and 
>PersonalizationModule.
>
>First MenuModule processes the request and puts its response (e.g. 
>the state of the current environment with menus etc.) into the 
>invocation dictionary as a JDOM-Element and specifies an XSLT 
>stylesheet that contains templates to render all XML content in HTML.
>
>After that NewsModule processes the request and put its response 
>(e.g. a news article displayed to the user) into the invocation 
>dictionary and specifies a stylesheet etc.
>
>Same for PersonalizationModule.
>
>When the request has been processed by all modules one XML document 
>is assembled having the response subtrees as first level children of 
>the document element. In addition to that all XSLT template 
>definitions are assembled into an enclosing stylesheet that at the 
>end of the request there is one XML document and one XSLT stylesheet 
>that is processed. To avoid naming conflicts without compromising 
>modularity, all XML subtrees corresponding to a module response get 
>their own namespace. All "apply-template" rules use a namespace to 
>match the XML elements in the response tree.
>

Why don't the various modules put the right namespaces in from the 
start? Why do you wait till after the document has been constructed 
to assign the namespace URI?
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