Re: [xsl] Roundtripability of identity transform

[andrew welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > As an aside, from what you've just said, if the DTD expects a
> > namespace declaration but that namespace is redundant and gets
> > removed, the document would no longer validate after the identity
> > transform (if the DTD was generated in the output).
>
> yes, if you wrote a dtd that demands xmlns="" on every element
> then process it through xslt identity transform you will get no xmlns=""
> at all in the output. Tough:-) You can make it validate again by making
> the dtd  default the namespace back.

hmmm, DTDs and XML with namespaces don't play well together.  I don't
like XML with doctype's and I don't like DTDs at all really (and I
_hate_ the idea of defaulted values).

I think I'll leave off the of doctype declaration after the identity
transform... no point validating twice :)