Re: [xsl] a very unusual namespace question

[Oliver Becker <obecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> In most processors you will then be able to use the $ns-prefix to
> indicate the namespace that you're after.  The only problem is that
> processors don't *have* to use the prefix you've specified when you
> create the attribute:
> 
>   "XSLT processors may make use of the prefix of the QName specified
>   in the name attribute when selecting the prefix used for outputting
>   the created attribute as XML; however, they are not required to do
>   so and, if the prefix is xmlns, they must not do so."
> 
> so it's not guaranteed (although I don't know of a processor that
> doesn't).

Some kind of conformance test maybe?

XML:
<el xmlns:prefix="uri1" prefix:att="foo" />

XSLT:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

<xsl:template match="el">
   <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
      <xsl:attribute name="prefix:att2" 
                     namespace="uri2">bar</xsl:attribute>
   </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Expected output?
XT and Saxon choose a different prefix (fine),
Xalan 2.0.1 ignores my namespace declaration to be "uri2" (wrong).

Cheers,
Oliver

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