I take your point about the Mulberry Technology list, but since you were
gracious enough to respond, I'd like to follow up. The point you made
below about exclude-result-prefixes is exactly my question. See inline.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This appears to be covered by XALANJ-2032, so the following is
supplemental info. The idea is to remove the namespace declarations
from the output root element using exclude-result-prefixes as specified
in the XSLT 1.0 spec Section 7.1.1. This problem was produced by
XALAN-J 2.7.0.
exclude-result-prefixes only works for namespace declarations that are not
required in the serialized result tree. Also, it does not affect
namespaces copied from the source tree using xsl:copy.
The conf: elements are "meta-elements" that are expanded by the
stylesheet. There are NO conf: elements in the result tree and as such,
the xmlns:conf declaration is not required at the root element of the
result tree. This was exactly what I was hoping exclude-result-prefixes
would eliminate, and it doesn't appear to. It is harmless if the
default xlmns declaration is placed on the output root element since the
entire output tree is in a single (the default) namespace, but it would
be nice if exclude-result-prefixes="#default" actually had that effect,
as appears to be suggested by XSLT 1.0 7.1.1 xsl:copy is used in order
for the stylesheet to be insensitive to the elements of the input
document other than the conf: elements.
If you feel my argument has flaws, could you indicate how the desired
result can be achieved
Dan
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root xmlns="http://www.testxsl.org/1999/ournamespace";
xmlns:conf="http://www.testxsl.org/2005/conformance"; version="2.0">
<catch>
<prompt>fail</prompt><exit/>
</catch>
</root>
Given your input and document and stylesheet, this is the correct result.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root version="2.0">
<catch>
<prompt>fail</prompt><exit/>
</catch>
</root>
If you don't want elements in the namespace "
http://www.testxsl.org/1999/ournamespace";, you can't use xsl:copy. Also,
the literal result elements in your stylesheet are in that namespace as
well, since you have a default namespace in your stylesheet.
For general XSLT questions, I always recommend the Mulberry Technologies
XSL list, along with the XSL FAQ:
http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/xslfaq.html
Dave
