Re: xsl:call-template , strange behaviour

Thanks Wendell for explanation ;)

Regards,
Mukul

--- Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mukul,
> 
> In your stylesheet, your <a/> and <b/> elements have
> namespace nodes on 
> them for the "temp" namespace, which they have
> inherited from the 
> xsl:stylesheet element.
> 
> Since you have not asked that this namespace be
> excluded, the processor can 
> only assume that they are part of the data it should
> output.
> 
> Note that neither <a/> nor <b/> is *in* the temp
> namespace, so it is 
> probably not accurate (or at least it's misleading)
> to say they are 
> "associated with it", even though in the result the
> namespace declarations 
> for temp must appear on <a/> and <b/> -- since
> there's no other place where 
> temp can be declared.
> 
> Since temp is not actually used, it should be
> possible to suppress it by 
> using the exclude-namespace-prefixes attribute on
> xsl:stylesheet. But it 
> will be suppressed on both <a/> and <b/> -- the fact
> that <b/> is generated 
> by a template named "temp:test" is a red herring.
> The behavior isn't 
> strange at all -- what would be strange would be if
> <b/> were placed in a 
> different namespace from the one given it by the
> stylesheet (the null 
> namespace), just because of the name of the template
> that adds it to the 
> result.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wendell
> 
> At 12:01 AM 6/6/2005, you wrote:
> >I have written this stylesheet -
> >
> ><?xml version="1.0"?>
> ><xsl:stylesheet
> >xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> >                 xmlns:temp="http://whatever"
> >                 version="2.0">
> >
> >  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
> >
> >  <xsl:template match="/">
> >     <xsl:call-template name="test" />
> >     <xsl:call-template name="temp:test" />
> >  </xsl:template>
> >
> >  <xsl:template name="test">
> >    <a/>
> >  </xsl:template>
> >
> >  <xsl:template name="temp:test">
> >    <b/>
> >  </xsl:template>
> >
> ></xsl:stylesheet>
> >
> >With both Xalan-J 2.6 and Saxon 8.4, I get the
> output
> >-
> ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> ><a xmlns:temp="http://whatever"/>
> ><b xmlns:temp="http://whatever"/>
> >
> >I am curious, why element <a> gets associated with
> the
> >namespace 'temp' ..?
> 
> 
>
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