[xsl] [Fwd: Unwanted xmlns attributes in ouput html tags]

Hi,

I am hoping someone may have some ideas to help resolve a problem that I
am currently experiencing. It seems rather unique and specific. I am
getting unwanted xmlns attributes appearing in output html tags in a
two-stage transform process and it appears to be due to the use of
includes in the first pass. It also seems to be an
xsl-processor-specific problem.

This is a long one, and dare I say, a real toughie (hopefully not for
all you experts out there). Please bear with me for the details.

SCENARIO
I am using a two stage xsl transform like so:
test.ixsl + step_one.xml => intermediate.xsl
intermediate.xsl + step_two.xml => final.html
(test.ixsl includes an inc.ixsl - a collection of common templates.)

PLATFORM DETAILS
Java SDK  1.3.1_08
JAXP 1.1 (crimson 1.1, xalan 2.4.1)
I know this is not the latest version but due to reasons beyond my
control I am stuck with this combination. Previously I have tried JAXP
1.2 with Java SDK 1.4 and this problem did not occur.

PROBLEM DETAILS
During the first transform (ixsl) certain html tags that are to be
inserted into "intermediate.xsl" contain xmlns attributes. This screws
up the second transform due to namespace issues. The following code
example will clarify what I am saying (it is a very simplified,
non-sensical example but it does reproduce the problem):

***** test.ixsl: ***********
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ixsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
      xmlns:ixsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/TransformAlias";>

   <ixsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="xsl" result-prefix="ixsl" />
   <ixsl:output method="xml" encoding="utf-8" />

<ixsl:include href="inc.ixsl" />

<ixsl:template match="/" >

     <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0">
       <xsl:template match="/">
         <html>
           <ixsl:call-template name="my_step_one_template" />
           <tr/>
           <xsl:call-template name="my_step_two_template">
             <xsl:with-param name="text" select="elements/some_info" />
           </xsl:call-template>
         </html>
       </xsl:template>

       <xsl:template name="my_step_two_template">
         <xsl:param name="text" />
         <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;p&gt;</xsl:text>
           <xsl:value-of select="$text" />
         <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;/p&gt;</xsl:text>
       </xsl:template>
     </xsl:stylesheet>

</ixsl:template>

</ixsl:stylesheet>
***** end file *************

***** inc.ixsl: ************
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ixsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
     xmlns:ixsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/TransformAlias";>

   <ixsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="xsl" result-prefix="ixsl" />
   <ixsl:output method="xml" encoding="utf-8" />

   <ixsl:template name="my_step_one_template">
     <tr>
       <td bgcolor="#666699">
         <b>
           Some text output by step one
         </b>
       </td>
     </tr>
   </ixsl:template>

</ixsl:stylesheet>
***** end file *************

Note: "ixsl" is the transformation namespace prefix during this stage
and the "xsl" namespace is ignored by the processor. However, we use the
"namespace-alias" element to swap the xsl and ixsl URIs (ie in the
result, "xsl" is assigned the "..../Transform" URI).

The 1st step transformation (test.ixsl + test_data.xml =>
intermediate.xsl) produces:

***** intermediate.xsl *****
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0"><xsl:template match="/"><html><tr
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/TransformAlias";><td
bgcolor="#666699"><b>
           Some text output by step one
         </b></td></tr><tr/><xsl:call-template
name="my_step_two_template"><xsl:with-param select="elements/some_info"
name="text"/></xsl:call-template></html></xsl:template><xsl:template
name="my_step_two_template"><xsl:param name="text"/><xsl:text
disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;p&gt;</xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="$text"/><xsl:text
disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;/p&gt;</xsl:text></xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet>
***** end file *************

Properly formatted (by hand), intermediate.xsl looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">

   <xsl:template match="/">
     <html>
       <tr xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/TransformAlias";>
         <td bgcolor="#666699"><b>Some text output by step one</b></td>
       </tr>
       <tr/>
       <xsl:call-template name="my_step_two_template">
         <xsl:with-param select="elements/some_info" name="text"/>
       </xsl:call-template>
     </html>
   </xsl:template>

   <xsl:template name="my_step_two_template">
   <xsl:param name="text"/>
     <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;p&gt;</xsl:text>
     <xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
     <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;/p&gt;</xsl:text>
   </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Notice how the <tr> below <html> has the "xmlns" attribute. Why does
this occur? This causes all sorts of havoc.

Another thing to notice is that the "xmlns" attribute does not occur on
the <tr/>. If you go back to "test.ixsl" you will see that it was not
derived from the included "inc.ixsl". So why does this problem only
apply to stuff that's included?

Getting to the final transform (intermediate.xsl + test_data.xml =>
final.html), it produces:

***** final.html ***********
<html>
<tr xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/TransformAlias";>
<td bgcolor="#666699"><b>
           Some text output by step one
         </b></td>
</tr>
<tr></tr><p></p></html>
***** end file *************

Notice that "my_step_two_template" didn't get called, or at least there
is no output from that template in "final.html". My interpretation is
that because of the pesky "xmlns" attribute appearing on the <tr> (with
the ".../TransformAlias" URI), the processor reads the
"xsl:call-template" as being in the "TransformAlias" namespace, hence
does not process it, and hence the xsl template is not called.

Something that also puzzles me greatly is why the "TransformAlias" URI
is carried over. I am clearly using the "namespace-alias" element
correctly as evident from line 2 of "intermediate.xsl" which contains:
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";. But for some odd
reason the <tr> gets the "TransformAlias" URI.

I have used imports instead of includes in the ixsl but that did not
make any difference.

The only way I can think of getting around this is to not use includes
but in our system, we have a number of ixsl files that require a common
set of templates. To do a direct paste of all common templates would
create a lot of redundancy and reduce maintainability greatly.

I am well and truly beaten by this problem. Has anyone seen this sort of
thing before? Is it a bug? Are there any other solutions or work
arounds? Any help will be more than appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Dinesh

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