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Subject: Re: [xsl] yet another namespace question (unwanted xmlns="")
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:11:37 -0400

Andrew,

At 04:43 PM 8/16/2010, you wrote:
On 16 August 2010 19:30, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At 09:42 AM 8/15/2010, you wrote:
>>
>> Dear XSL List,
>>
>> > Move the xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" to the xsl:stylesheet
>> > element. Currently
>> > you have it inside of a template so that it only applies to the elements
>> > created in that template.
>>
>> Thanks very much to Martin and Michael for the quick response and the
>> explanation. I now realize that I've been putting namespace declarations in
>> the wrong place all my life (well, all the life of the namespace spec,
>> anyway), thinking that because I want them to appear on the root element of
>> my result document I should put them there in the stylesheet, instead of
>> putting them on the root element of the stylesheet itself and letting them
>> get copied to the root of the result. As a bonus, for the first time
>> exclude-result-prefixes now seems to do what I've always wanted it to do.
>
> Of course, one does have to take care that XPath expressions still select
> and match in the namespace one wants them in. Fortunately, in XSLT 2.0 we
> have xpath-default-namespace to help with this.


Changing the default namespace doesn't affect xpaths... that's
xquery's big fault - or did you mean something else?

No, that's exactly what I meant ... I mean, I meant what you said ...


(It can be odd to have unprefixed elements in the stylesheet in one namespace, and unprefixed names in paths be in another namespace, or none, but it's better than the XQuery situation, and in any case one can always make it all explicit.)

Maybe that's clearer, or not. :-)

Cheers,
Wendell


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