RE: Re: Can one _generate_ namespace nodes?

> But in the XPath data model, namespace declarations are 
> "namespace nodes", 
> and XSLT appears to have no mechanism for explicitly generating a 
> namespace node into the output document.

That's true, but you can COPY a namespace node. So there's the
workaround

<xsl:variable name="temp">
  <xsl:element name="{$prefix}:local" namespace="{$uri}"/>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:copy-of select="xx:node-set($temp)//namespace::*"/>
> 
> Am I missing something obvious? Or is there a gap in the XSLT design?
> 

There is a gap in 1.0, the xsl:namespace instruction in XSLT 2.0 plugs
it.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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