This is a known bug in Saxon 8.8: see

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1558133&group_id=2
9872&atid=397617

A source patch is available in the Subversion repository, and a Jar file
that contains this patch and quite a few others is at
http://www.saxonica.com/download/patched/saxon-bj-8802.zip

I don't recommend this version unless you specifically need these patches,
because it hasn't been through full testing.

Saxon questions are best asked on the saxon-help mailing list or forum at
Sourceforge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/saxon/

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Lachance [mailto:patricklachance@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 02 November 2006 02:02
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  NAMESPACE_ERR when creating element with namespace
> 
> I don't understand.
> I am using saxon 8.8 for java and xerces 2.6.1
> 
> This simple example will replicate a XML document by adding a 
> namespace to each nodes:
> 
>     <xsl:template match="*">
>         <xsl:element name="{local-name()}" 
> namespace=http://mynamespace>
>             <xsl:apply-templates/>
>         </xsl:element>
>     </xsl:template>
> 
> I'm stuck with this error:
> 
> Caused by: org.w3c.dom.DOMException: NAMESPACE_ERR: An 
> attempt is made to create or change an object in a way which 
> is incorrect with regard to namespaces.
>  at org.apache.xerces.dom.AttrNSImpl.setName
>  at org.apache.xerces.dom.AttrNSImpl.<init>
>  at org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.createAttributeNS
>  at org.apache.xerces.dom.ElementImpl.setAttributeNS
>  at net.sf.saxon.dom.DOMWriter.namespace(DOMWriter.java:118)
>  ... 132 more
> 
> 
> the problem occurs when the first node is created ... 
> DOMWriter create the attribute xmlns="html://mynamespace" and 
> my Xerces impl throws a DOMException
> 
>  Please help
> 
> Patrick Lachance