Your root template is carefully outputting the html, head, and body
elements in the XHTML namespace, and I suspect the other template rules
are outputting the other elements in the null namespace. So Saxon has to
output the namespace undeclaration xmlns="" to prevent them inheriting
the XHTML namespace.
It would be simplest to move the declaration of the XHTML namespace from
your root xsl:template to the xsl:stylesheet element.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael(_dot_)H(_dot_)Kay(_at_)ntlworld(_dot_)com
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[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Gustaf Liljegren
Sent: 11 March 2003 16:44
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Subject: [xsl] xmlns=""
It seems I have still things to understand about namespaces.
I made a stylesheet to convert an in-house XML format to
XHTML 1.1. For some reason, I get a xmlns="" on each
top-level element beneath <body>. If I remove the default
namespace declaration in the <html> root element, they disappear.
Here's an abbreviated excerpt of the output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd";> >
<html
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="sv">
<head>
<title>...</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<h1 xmlns="">...</h1>
<p xmlns="">...</p>
<h2 xmlns="">...</h2>
<p xmlns="">...</p>
<table xmlns="">
...
</table>
<ul xmlns="">
<li>...</li>
<li>...</li>
<li>...</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
And here's the template for the root element:
<!-- Root node template -->
<xsl:template match="/">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="sv">
<head>
<title><xsl:value-of select="heading1"/></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
My XSLT processor is Saxon 6.5.2.
Gustaf
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