I've hit a nail with a transformation that used to work fine. First, a little background: I transform a dependencies.xml file into several Ant build.xml files using a stylesheet that makes use of the redirect extension. Worked great (even though the formatting of the generated build.xml files is horrible!).
The transformation is driven by Ant of course ;-) The source XML document will start being modified by many developers which do not know its exact structure. I thus developed a schema for it (dependencies.xsd) collocated to the source document, and added a validation step (in Ant) of the source document prior to the transformation. I thus added the following attributes to my root element: <module xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="dependencies.xsd" name="tahoe"> (BTW, this document is similar, but not the same, as a GUMP descriptor, and didn't belong to any namespace). Adding xsi-related attributes ensured proper validation of the document by my Ant task (Ant's <xmlvalidate> supports schema validation in CVS only, not Ant 1.5.1). So far, so good. The problem I have is that since I added these attributes (/ namespace declaration), all elements of my source document which are copied as-is to the generated build.xml files now include an extraneous xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; declarations in them, and of course Ant is chocking on that... Here's a fragment of the source document, and a fragment of the generated build.xml, along the the xsl fragment that did the copy: <project ...> <sources> <include name="com/lgc/infra/viz/**"/> <exclude name="com/lgc/infra/viz/fv/**"/> </sources> <depend project="dep-vecmath"/> <depend project="lgc-sc3"/> </project> yields: <fileset dir="${ds.home}/src" id="sources"> <include xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; name="com/lgc/infra/viz/**"/> <exclude xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; name="com/lgc/infra/viz/fv/**"/> </fileset> from: <xsl:template match="project"> ... <fileset id="sources" dir="{'${ds.home}/src'}"> <xsl:copy-of select="sources/*"/> </fileset> ... </xsl:template> How can I get rid of these xmlns:xsi declarations showing up every time I use <xsl:copy-of>??? I tried using exclude-result-prefixes as shown below to no avail (and several variant thereof): <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; xmlns:lxslt="http://xml.apache.org/xslt"; xmlns:redirect="org.apache.xalan.xslt.extensions.Redirect" extension-element-prefixes="redirect" exclude-result-prefixes="xsi #default"> I also tried putting my source document in a default namespace to no avail either. Basically I have no clue why these xmlns:xsi declarations are making it to the generated files, and how to remove them. I'm using the Xalan version in JDK 1.4.0_01, with the regular Crimson parser from the JDK. Thanks for any help, and sorry for the long winded post. I can provide still more info if needed ;-) --DD
