"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?
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Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire