[lxml-dev] Getting around namespaces

[Ross Vandegrift]

Hi everyone,

I'm working on XSLT sheets for transforming XML into Python, but I've
got something of a hiccup.

I have a collection of identical documents that have unfortunately
been tagged with different namespaces.  I know that the semantics
haven't changed - someone thought it'd be useful to indicate the
version of the generator in the namespace.

This of course makes XSLT a pain - I need duplicate transform sheets
that differ only in the namespace configuration.  Further, namespaces
appear to be the one element of XSLT that I can't use a parameter to
substitute.

So I'm thinking of pre-processing the XSLT to subsitute the
version-specific namespace.  Is there a better way?

-- 
Ross Vandegrift
ross at kallisti.us

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