Re: Why does using the XSL namespace default namespace

Because namespace-alias is used to swap one namespace for another.  It
has nothing to do with what prefix the XSLT processor uses in the
output: you do not get any control over this, though most processors
try to follow what is in the input.
It is a feature of the namespace recommendation that the empty
namespace cannot be associated with a prefix.  I.e. you can say
xmlns="" but not xmlns:null="".  If you want the empty namespace in
the output, then you have to reserve the default namespace for literal
result elements.  I guess somebody somewhere knows why?

One way to address this problem, and other perceived shortcomings of
XSLT syntax, is to write a stylesheet which takes something like

<stylesheet>
<template match="/">
 <h:html/>
</template>
</stylesheet>

and produces

<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"

<xsl:template match="/">
 <html/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Its not hard.  Though you will have to understand what namespace-alias
really does, and you may end up finding out more than you really want
to know about white space handling ;-)

Regards,
Trevor Nash
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