At 2008-11-13 17:50 +0100, Geert Josten wrote:
A question about the XSLT recommendation..
I think you'll find the answer in the Namespaces in XML recommendation.
If you add the following to your XSLT stylesheet:
<test xmlns="http://test">
<xsl:attribute name="test"/>
</test>
What namespace should that attribute receive?
Namespaces in XML states that attributes without prefixes are in no
namespace, not in the default namespace:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-names11-20060816/#uniqAttrs
Should the result be:
<test xmlns="http://test" test=""/>
Yes ... because the element is in the default namespace and the
attribute is in no namespace.
The XSLT 2.0 recommendation states:
"If the namespace attribute is not present, then the lexical Qname
is expanded into an expanded-QName using the namespace declarations
in effect for the xsl:attribute element, not including any default
namespace declaration."
Makes sense since unprefixed attributes are in no namespace.
The xsl:attribute has no namespace attribute, and the lexical Qname
contains no prefix. But since de default namespace declaration
should not be included in resolving/expanding the Qname, I would
expect the latter result should appear.
Not when you take into consideration that unprefixed attributes are
in no namespace.
However, the latter is not valid according to:
(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#ns-decl, 2nd paragraph or so)
..nor does any of the common implementations give that result, the
all return the first..
As they should.
Am I misinterpreting the XSLT recommendation?
No, you are unaware of the constraints of the namespaces recommendation.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . Ken
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