Re: [xsl] Namespace declarations in the Stylsheet element

[Oleg Tkachenko <olegt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mia Chase wrote:

> I'm just learning XSLT, so forgive me if my question has an obvious 
> answer. I declared a namespace as part of a stylesheet (just as an 
> experiment really):
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xsl:version="1.0"
>                mia:version="0.0"
>                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>                xmlns:mia="http://www.fooBar.com/mia";
>
> >
> ...
> </doc>
>
> The processor adds this namespace to my result document:
>
> <doc xmlns:mia="http://www.fooBar.com/mia";>.../doc
>
> I don't understand why it does this and I haven't been able to find 
> anything in the XSLT spec that explains it. 

See http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt.html#section-Creating-the-Result-Tree

"The created element node will also have a copy of the namespace nodes that 
were present on the element node in the stylesheet tree with the exception of 
any namespace node whose string-value is the XSLT namespace URI 
(http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform), a namespace URI declared as an 
extension namespace (see [14.1 Extension Elements]), or a namespace URI 
designated as an excluded namespace."

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Oleg Tkachenko
Multiconn International, Israel


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