Re: [xsl] pesky xmlns attributes

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:00 PM 10/1/2003, David wrote:
> > Anyone have any clues they can share with this odd behavior.  The
>
> elements in the result have the names (including namespace names) that
> you specify in the stylesheet if the elements are created in the
> stylesheet, or had in the source, if they are copied from the source. If
> the lineariser is inserting namespace declarations mid-document it means
> that you are generating some elements in one namespace and others in
> another. Apparently you want to generate them all in one namepsace (or
> more correctly, for html, no namespace at all).

I have seen cases of processors inserting redundant namespace declarations. 
For example, I have seen Xalan (which version I can't say off hand, sorry, 
but this was recent) insert extra namespace declarations for namespaces 
which had already been declared on the document element, when lower-level 
elements were created in a call to a named template; when the identical 
elements are created through literal result elements the namespaces are not 
redeclared.

Needless to say, this can be a pain: not only is it unsightly, but also it 
frustrates validation in non-namespace-aware contexts such as with DTDs. 
(And we thought namespaces were optional.) Unfortunately I haven't been 
able to dig into the problem enough to see whether there's a better 
solution than simply not to use the call to the named template (which is 
obviously sub-optimal).

> Without seeing your stylesheet though hard to guess what to change.

Sometimes it's hard to guess even when you *can* see it. :->

Cheers,
Wendell



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