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RE: namespace prefix weirdness

2004-08-19 00:21:48
The "undeclare-namespaces" property applies only to namespaces with an
explicit prefix. Undeclaration of the default namespace (xmlns="") has
always been allowed (and is often necessary) even with XML 1.0 and XSLT 1.0.

Michael Kay 

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Paul Adams 
[mailto:colin(_at_)colina(_dot_)demon(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk] 
Sent: 18 August 2004 15:18
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Cc: 'Bruce D'Arcus'
Subject: Re: [xsl] namespace prefix weirdness

"Michael" == Michael Kay <mhk(_at_)mhk(_dot_)me(_dot_)uk> writes:


    Michael> I think that what's happening here is that when Saxon
    Michael> copies an element (xsl:copy-of applied to the mods
    Michael> element in this case), it first copies all the namespace
    Michael> nodes from the source element, then performs namespace
    Michael> fixup to decide what prefix to allocate to the element
    Michael> name (and to any attribute names). While copying the
    Michael> namespace nodes, it has decided to generate an xmlns=""
    Michael> undeclaration, because the source element does not have
    Michael> the namespace xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3"; in scope
    Michael> and it therefore needs to be undeclared.

The spec says that undeclare-namespaces should default to "no", and is
only relevant for method="xml" and version="1.1".
I couldn't see any xsl:output statemtent in the code, so 
isn't this a bug?
-- 
Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire

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