Re: [xsl] Odd Result-Document Behavior

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Im using Saxon 9.6.0.7 via Oxygen.
>
> Im using xsl:result-document with @format to generate result documents.
> If I use a variable reference in @format the referenced xml:output is
> not used. If I replace the variable reference with a string literal I
> get the expected output (in both cases the attribute is an attribute
> value template).
>
> My initial code is:
>
> <xsl:result-documenthref="{$mapUri}"format="{$mapFormat}>
>
>
> Where $mapFormat has the string value map and the map output
> declaration is present:
>
>
> <xsl:paramname="mapFormat"as="xs:string"select="'map'/>
>
>
> <xsl:output name="map"
>      method="xml"
>      doctype-public="-//OASIS//DTD DITA Map//EN"
>      doctype-system="map.dtd"
>      indent="yes"
> />
>
>
> When I run this, the output is not used (result document has no DOCTYPE
> decl and is not indented).
>
> If I replace format="{$mapFormat} with format={map} then I get the
> expected result (DOCTYPE decl, indented markup).
>
> So the only difference is the use of the variable reference. Ive
> verified that $mapFormat has a value:
>
> <xsl:message>+ [DEBUG]
> mapFormat="<xsl:sequenceselect="$mapFormat"/>"</xsl:message>
>
>
> Which produces:
>
>
> + [DEBUG] mapFormat=map"
>
> It seems unlikely that this is a Saxon bug but Im at a loss as to what
> I could be doing wrong to cause this behavior.
>
> What am I missing?

Any chance some part of the stylesheet does e.g. 
xmlns="http://example.com/ns";, i.e. sets a default namespace? If the 
result-document instruction is inside code doing that but the xsl:output 
not, then one would use a name in the namespace while the other would 
use a name in no namespace.