Bug #5974
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SaxonJS documentation does not address namespaces
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Description
Using the following as my guide... https://www.saxonica.com/saxon-js/documentation2/index.html#!browser/events https://www.saxonica.com/saxon-js/demos2/cities ...and the demo from 2021 I was unable to get the most basic interactive functionality off the ground. Turns out that the the template match attributes in the examples above either didn't say what the default namespace was or matched only the no-namespace namespace, and so the templates in my environment didn't get off the ground.
For the cities demo, I downloaded all the pieces one, by one, and got the initial template to work, but no column sorting. Had to add xpath-default-namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" to get it going. For the parallel project I was working on I found it easiest to do some *:div, *:button etc. for the match patterns.
Easy fix here, just massage the documentation and example so that users are aware front and center that they need to be namespace-aware.
If Saxon develops a SaxonJS FAQ with the question, Why won't my events fired?, the namespace topic should be one of the first things mentioned.
Thanks for all the great work put into this!
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