> On Wed, March 25, 2009 19:00, Michael Kay wrote:
> > XSLT will only handle input that is well-formed XML 
> conforming to the 
> > Namespaces recommendation.
> 
> I'm curious: why?  Normally the XSLT standard is pretty 
> standoffish about parsing (and serialization), and leaves 
> such matters to the XML parser. 
> Provided that the XSLT processor can be given a DOM tree as 
> input, and can give a DOM tree as output, why would it care 
> that the source document uses namespaces or not?

It doesn't have to use namespaces. It just has to conform to the namespaces
recommendation. That means that these documents are legal:

(a) <my:a xmlns:my="http://my.com"/>

(b) <a/>

and this one is not:

(c) <my:a/>

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