RE: [xsl] Differing behavior of Xalan and Saxon with namespaces. Who's right?

["Passin, Tom" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[Niko Matsakis]
[I said]
> > Both Xalan and Saxon are correct.  True, the Xalan output 
> declares an
> > extra namespace, but the FitnessCenter element does not 
> belong to that
> > namespace. So the presence of the declaration has no effect on the
> > interpretation of the document.
> 
> 
> Not strictly true.  Depending on how the FitnessCenter element was 
> created (literal result element vs xsl:element vs xsl:copy) the XSLT 
> processor is obliged to copy over different sets of namespace 
> bindings; 

I forgot to say that I assumed that Roger had used a literal result
element in the stylesheet (since he told us nothing about the source
document).  I apologise for not saying that clearly.

In either case, though, the two documents are equivalent since the
FitnessCenter element is in no namespace either way.

Cheers,

Tom P

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