RE: [xsl] Namespace-alias using #default with no default namespace in scope

Subject: RE: [xsl] Namespace-alias using #default with no default namespace in scope
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 21:48:57 +0100
> This is an XSLT 1.0 issue.
> 
> With XSLT 2.0 processors, a value of "#default" either for 
> the stylesheet-prefix or result-prefix of an 
> xsl:namespace-alias will raise a static error.

Actually, no: we decided to change that because of compatibility concerns.
Not with the 1.0 spec, which has nothing to say on the subject, but with 1.0
implementations and applications. See
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2613

I suspect you've researched the behaviour of 1.0 processors for this case
more thoroughly than we did!

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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