Symphony.

When selecting nodes from a photofeed in the external xml DS you can get rid of a lot of unneeded XML by selecting specific nodes. If you select root only the root will have a bunch of namespaces, however the optimized specific XML has namespaces in each entry, which I find a waste. Since I only use 2 of them. How can I get rid of the unused ones? or even better create a parent node that has them all once (like /)?

</media:group>
<media:group 
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" 
    xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" 
    xmlns:exif="http://schemas.google.com/photos/exif/2007" 
    xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" 
    xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml" 
    xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" 
    xmlns:photo="http://www.pheed.com/pheed/" 
    xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" 
    xmlns:batch="http://schemas.google.com/gdata/batch" 
    xmlns:gphoto="http://schemas.google.com/photos/2007">

Also if you need 2 or 3 nodes per entry spread out accross parents, you need to grab the main parent. I'd rather grab specific child nodes here AND there; I would like to select multiple nodes in the datasource field like;

/feed/entry | feed/content

How is this possible? A textfield for a small xslt block of code instead of just one expression?

resource1 resource2

How is this possible? A textfield for a small xslt block of code instead of just one expression?

Something I will think about. It certainly wouldn't be a stretch to allow an XSLT block rather than a single xpath. I'll chat to the team about it.

I assume an xslt block will be in the dynamic/external DSes of RC1, so you can combine nodes within one parent. Also it would need a field for excluding namespaces.(the bunch of unused ones you get on each node in for exampel a photofeed. Just like you can declare namespaces, you should be able to leave them out. On a xslt page this would be simple, but since for the DS editor the inner workings are hidden from us, there is no way I can currently achieve this.