Re: [xsl] Xalan producing error - (Location of error unknown)org.xml.sax.SAXException: Can not resolve namespace prefix: #all

[Martin Holmes <mholmes@xxxxxxx>]

On 14-01-07 11:26 AM, Graydon wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 01:09:00PM -0600, a kusa scripsit:
> > When I try to run transformation using xalan, I keep getting this error:
> >
> > (Location of error unknown)org.xml.sax.SAXException: Can not resolve
> > namespace prefix: #all
> >
> > I do have exclude-result-prefixes in my stylesheet and I use XSLT2.0.
> >
> > How do I prevent this error?!
>
> By using an XSLT 2.0 processor -- Xalan is strictly 1.0, see
> <http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/> -- or by using an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet
> that doesn't try to use a 2.0 construct like #all.
>
> Especially since #all is a keyword for _modes_, not prefixes; if you've
> got something in your code where a namespace prefix starts with an
> octothorpe (#) that's not going to work anywhere, prefixes can have the
> characters of the Name production except for

Surely #all is an allowed value for exclude-result-prefixes? It's in the 
example code here:

<http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#lre-namespaces>

Cheers,
Martin

the colon (:).  Name
> production start characters don't include #.
>
> -- Graydon