Re: XSL and Namespace

Hi Perry,

> I am using a namespace called "documentation" in my XSL which I process with
> its own XSL to produce html documentation for the XSL file. The following
> code snippet causes an error when using Saxon (both Instant and 6.1),
> telling me that the import tags need to be the first tags after the
> xsl:stylesheet element, however Xalan and MSXML 3 process without error. The
> spec says <xsl:import> has to be the first element but does it have to be
> the first element of all namespaces?

The XSLT Recommendation says:

   "The xsl:import element children must precede all other element
   children of an xsl:stylesheet element, including any xsl:include
   element children."

It doesn't predicate the 'element children' of the xsl:stylesheet
element as being 'XSLT element children' or 'element children in the
XSLT namespace'.  So, strictly, you can't have any other element
children, no matter what namespace, before xsl:import elements.

Cheers,

Jeni

Cheers,
Johannes