I have a stylesheet which I use to normalize various versions of a
DTD. Some old XML documents created against this DTD do not include
a default namespace declaration on the root element but the newer
ones do, and I think the way I have to handle this is to have two
templates in my stylesheet, one of which selects root elements
without a namespace and one which does:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:mynamespace="namespaceURI"
version="2.0">
<xsl:template match="rootElement">
<!-- do stuff when no namespace declaration present: older documents
-->
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="mynamespace:rootElement">
<!-- do stuff when there is a namespace declaration present: newer
documents -->
</xsl:template>
...
</xsl:stylesheet>
Documents which have a namespace declaration specify it as
<rootElement xmlns="namespaceURI">.
I'm noticing that the stylesheet works fine when run under a debugger
such as Oxygen. However, when I compile this stylesheet under Saxon-
B 9-0-0-4j and run it as the first filter of a JAXP filter chain, the
template with the namespace prefix gets invoked regardless of whether
the XML document specifies a namespace on its root element or not. I
put in some <xsl:message> statements to dump the in-scope namespaces,
and the only one I see is the XML namespace - no reference to
"namespaceURI". Any thoughts on what's going on here, or where my
logic is faulty?
Thanks
Chris