On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 13:35 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 12:31:56PM -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote: > > This may well be an error in our usage, so I hesitate to post a bug > > report without confirming. There has been a change in behavior beginning > > with the fedora libxslt-1.1.18-1 package, but it is likely that our > > input has always been wrong and it is simply getting "caught" now (which > > is good). > > > > Problem: We have an XSLT transformer that used to work (but may have > > been incorrect). It is emitting an SVG tree using the XML output method, > > and it is trying to wrap part of the output in a namespace tag by doing: > > > > <xsl:element name="svg"> > > ... > > ==> <xsl:attribute name="xmlns:svg"> > > <xsl:text>http://www.w3.org/2000/svg</xsl:text> > > </xsl:attribute> > > > > Beginning with 1.1.18-1, we get an error at the line indicated by the > > "==>". > > > > compilation error: file ../../../../doc/doctools/XSLT/sbox-svg.xsl > > line 47 element attribute > > xsl:attribute: The prefixed QName 'xmlns:svg' has no namespace binding > > in scope in the stylesheet; this is an error, since the namespace > > was not specified by the instruction itself. > > > > [lines broken for readability] > > > > I'm not clear if this is a bug in libxslt or if it is a but in our > > transform script. > > The latter I guess: > http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#creating-attributes > > "XSLT processors may make use of the prefix of the QName specified > in the name attribute when selecting the prefix used for outputting > the created attribute as XML; however, they are not required to do > so and, if the prefix is xmlns, they must not do so. Thus, although > it is not an error to do: > > <xsl:attribute name="xmlns:xsl" > namespace="whatever">http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform</xsl:attribute> > > it will not result in a namespace declaration being output."
Then what is the proper way to emit a namespace declaration. shap _______________________________________________ xslt mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xslt
