Re: [xsl] processing xml data with default namespace

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Achim,

At 09:16 PM 7/12/2006, you wrote:
> > > i was expecting to get the same result as in output1. why is 
> > > pat:bar apparently not the same as the xsl:element instruction above?
> > Actually, in namespace-aware XML, it is.
> > [...]
> i almost figured that... but can i have both somehow? a stylesheet 
> that is easier to read and less bloated output? one 'pat:' prefix 
> with a namespace declaration is not much, but when processing 
> several thousand documents, it is quite a lot...

That's one of the reasons why I suggested the usefulness of this 
feature (or rather, side-effect) for writing a syntax-cleanup 
stylesheet. (There are a number of ways to run two stylesheets in 
sequence without writing the intermediate results to disk.)

Cheers,
Wendell