At 2003-02-21 19:24 -0500, Joseph Kesselman wrote:
If anyone *does* know of
an official and reliable way to generate a namespace declaration into a
document at a specific point
In the past I've tried unsuccessfully doing an <xsl:copy-of> from the
stylesheet to the result as in:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xslo="dummy"
version="1.0">
<xsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="xslo" result-prefix="xsl"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<output>
<xsl:copy-of select="document('')/*/namespace::xslo"/>
<xslo:embedded/>
</output>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
but though it works in XT it doesn't work in Saxon because in Saxon the
dummy namespace URI of the copied namespace node isn't being
translated. I'm willing to accept either way as correct, but don't know
which way that would be.
My fallback is to just add a placebo attribute to the result document element:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xslo="dummy"
version="1.0">
<xsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="xslo" result-prefix="xsl"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<output xslo:dummy="">
<xslo:embedded/>
</output>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
> If not... well, the article goes out as "it's ugly but it works."
If adding the document element placebo is less ugly than the repeated
declarations, and it doesn't interfere with the result (which it might ...
I am changing the result information set by doing this and that may not be
acceptable), then you are all set.
I hope this helps.
...................... Ken
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