Re: [xsl] xmlns="" / XML to XHTML

Subject: Re: [xsl] xmlns="" / XML to XHTML
From: Alexander Nichau <ml@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:15:30 +0200
Michael Kay schrieb:
and b) modified the <html> Tag like this:

<html lang="de" xml:lang="de">
<xsl:attribute name="xmlns">http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml</xsl:attribute>


And see there: All default namespaces are gone (Perhaps I4ve finally understood namespaces ;-))



No, I'm sorry, but you haven't. A namespace is not an attribute, and an
attribute is not allowed to have the name "xmlns". The spec says explicitly
(section 7.1.3) "It is an error if the [name attribute] is the string
"xmlns". If your XSLT processor accepts this stylesheet, then it has a bug
in it.

Ok. :-( I removed it. It remains XHTMl then.


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