RE: [xsl] exclude-result-prefixes issue

Subject: RE: [xsl] exclude-result-prefixes issue
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 09:15:59 +0100
> My problem now is my output looks like
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope
> xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";
> xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema";
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance";
> SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";>
>   <SOAP-ENV:Header
> xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";>

This output contains a redundant namespace declaration for SOAP-ENV on the
Header element. I would expect most decent XSLT processors to avoid
outputting redundant namespace declarations, but it is not actually an error
since the two documents are equivalent, and it is not something you can
control. Which processor are you using?

Michael Kay

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