I appreciate your concern about these changes, and I agree that they need to be tested with other XSLT processors.
They have been tested only with the Xalan bundled in the Dec-16-2002) Cocoon-2.1 snapshot, and with Saxon-7.3.1. Here are stronger arguments for these changes: Step 1: The attribute "exclude-result-prefixes" stops unnecessary namespace declarations from being added to the result tree, but does not stop necessary namespaces from being added. Is there an XSLT processor we care about that has a bug in this area, or did I misread the spec? Step 2: A few weeks ago the "xsp:init-page" code looked like this: <!-- Do any user-defined necessary initializations --> <xsl:value-of select="xsp:init-page"/> Then it was changed to handle multiple <xsp:init-page> tags AND to use <xsl:copy-of> in place of <xsl:value-of>: <!-- Do any user-defined necessary initializations --> <xsl:for-each select="xsp:init-page"> <xsl:copy-of select="."/> </xsl:for-each> I am suggesting to keep the changes to handle multiple <xsp:init-page> tags, BUT to revert the change to <xsl:copy-of> back to <xsl:value-of> to prevent namespace declarations from sneaking into the generated java source code: <!-- Do any user-defined necessary initializations --> <xsl:for-each select="xsp:init-page"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:for-each> I use the same argument for the <xsp:exit-page> handling (except to note that it did not exist at all a few weeks ago): <!-- Do any user-defined necessary clean-ups --> <xsl:for-each select="xsp:exit-page"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:for-each> Tim >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/16/02 03:50PM >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Timothy: Have you tested that those changes will not break other XSLT processors? Saxon 7 is experimental and there is no guarantee that further changes will not break it again. I'm strongly -1 about this changes Carlos - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Larson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 10:56 AM Subject: [BUGFIX] Cocoon-2.1, Saxon-7.3.1, XSP pages I solved my problem with Cocoon-2.1, Saxon-7.3.1, and XSP pages, without breaking support for Xalan. In the file: xml-cocoon\src\java\org\apache\cocoon\components\language\markup\xsp\j ava\xsp.xsl I did these two steps to allow the generated java source code for XSP pages to compile without errors: Step 1: To stop the namespaces from the "xsp.xsl" stylesheet from being inserted at the top of the generated java source file I added the line: exclude-result-prefixes="xsp XSLTExtension" To make this: <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsp="http://apache.org/xsp" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:XSLTExtension="org.apache.cocoon.components.language.markup.xsp. XSLTExtension" exclude-result-prefixes="xsp XSLTExtension"> Step 2: To stop the namespaces from the source XSP document from landing in the "generate()" function I changed the <xsl:copy-of select="."/> elements the <xsl:value-of select="."/> elements in the xsp:init-page and xsp:exit-page code in the generate() function: <!-- Do any user-defined necessary initializations --> <xsl:for-each select="xsp:init-page"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:for-each> <!-- Do any user-defined necessary clean-ups --> <xsl:for-each select="xsp:exit-page"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:for-each> Would you do any verification you need and check these changes into CVS please? Tim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]