RE: [xsl] exclude-result-prefixes required in each imported stylesheet

["Colin Adams" <colinpauladams@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You set it for each individual stylesheet module.

This means that the source text can be understand in terms of itself, plus 
any texts it depends upon (via xsl:include or xsl:import).

If instead, the importing modules settings were used, then you would need to 
read the set of all modules that depend upon the txt you are reading - a 
potentially unbounded set - many of it's members might not yet be written.

So this would be a very bad software engineering practice. Fortunately, the 
XSLT designers didn't do it  that way.

> From: "andrew welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>

> It seems exclude-result-prefixes needs to be explicity set for each
> imported stylesheet, rather than using the value in the importing
> stylesheet - is that right?
>
> For example:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>  xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
>  exclude-result-prefixes="xs">
>
> <xsl:import href="b.xslt"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> 	<xsl:call-template name="foo"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> b.xslt:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>  xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";>
>
> <xsl:template name="foo">
> 	<foo/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> The result is:
>
> <foo xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; />
>
> Is there any reason why the exclude-result-prefixes value isn't taken
> from the importing stylesheet?  Not the biggest issue I know, just
> struck me as odd.

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