RE: [xsl] namespace issue

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Literal result elements are copied to the result tree together with all
their in-scope namespaces. You can suppress this by using
exclude-result-prefixes="dt" on xsl:stylesheet.

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Kart [mailto:jkart@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 17 May 2003 07:02
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] namespace issue
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a namespace problem I can't figure out.
> 
> my xsl stylesheet declaration looks like this:
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";  
> xmlns:dt="http://xsltsl.org/date-time"; >
> 
> then further on in the stylesheet i have various templates which use 
> div tags.  for example:
> 
> <xsl:template match = "E-Mail_Addresses" >
> 	<div class="object" id="object28">
> 		<xsl:apply-templates select="Type" />
> 		<xsl:apply-templates select="Address" />
> 	</div>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> the xml (for the E-Mail_Addresses element) looks like:
> 
> <E-Mail_Addresses instance_uid = "34" >
> 	<Address >bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</Address>
> 	<Type >
> 		<option>-Select a Type-</option>
> 		<option value="4" >Home</option>
> 		<option value="3" selected="1">Work</option>
> 	</Type>
> </E-Mail_Addresses>
> 
> the resulting xhtml looks like:
> 
> <div xmlns:dt="http://xsltsl.org/date-time"; class="object" 
> id="object28">
> 	<span class="attribute" id="attribute74">Work</span>
> 	<span class="attribute" 
> id="attribute73">bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx</span>
> </div>
> 
> I'm not worried about the inner spans.  They're handled by other 
> templates which seem to be doing their jobs.  What I don't 
> know is why 
> the xmlns attribute is being inserted into the div element.
> 
> Any help would be most appreciated.
> Thanks,
> -jonathan kart