At 00/01/28 09:38 +0000, Kay Michael wrote:
> > <aTag2 xmlns=""></aTag2>
> >
> > Why is it doing this ?
When you copy a literal result element to the result tree, all its namespace
nodes are copied too, unless you ask for them not to be. This is what's in
the spec, if you want to know why it's in the spec, don't ask me!
My understanding is as follows:
- if the processor chooses to serialize the result tree instantly,
without keeping the entire tree in memory before it is complete, then the
design of the language allows the processor to emit an element's start tag
as soon as content for that element is defined
- if the processor waited until it came to a bunch of elements that
needed a namespace declaration, and the container for those elements did
not require a namespace declaration, then all the individual elements would
require namespace declarations and you'd see a whole lot of declarations
when only one on the container would suffice
- therefore, if the processor knows from the stylesheet there is a chance
for the presence of namespaces in a document, then it can preemptively emit
the namespace declarations once at the document element and cover the
entire scope of the document
- since the start tag of the document element is long gone before the end
of the document element is processed, the processor has no way of knowing,
a priori, if any of the contingent namespace declarations will ever be
needed throughout the document
- the safe way to cover the bases without affecting the parse of the
result document downstream by other processes, and without potentially
numerous declarations, is to emit a namespace declaration in the document
element for every namespace for which literal result elements *might* be used
- the stylesheet writer can inform the processor of the likelihood of not
needing a particular namespace declaration (perhaps for stylesheet
documentation purposes) using exclude-result-prefixes= and the processor
will then hold off emitting the namespace declaration until it absolutely
positively needs one ... if the stylesheet writer was correct in their
assertion one wasn't needed, then one never shows up
The caveat here is that I'm not a member of the committee, so I don't know
what the committee thinks officially ... this is just my justification for
the evidence I see.
I hope this helps.
.............. Ken
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