Re: Re: removing a specific namespace declaration

On 11/8/09 2:15 PM, "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> Fine ... but just remember an unused namespace is supposed to be
> benign to XML-based applications.
> 
>> It's still a little unclear to me why this approach requires a
>> namespace declaration in the element
>> (namespace="{namespace-uri(.)}"), as I would have thought the
>> explicit copying of namespace nodes would have taken care of it,

Unexpected (and unneeded) namespace declarations can be a problem for
DTD-validated documents where not all elements provide the namespace
declaration attributes. Thus a namespace declaration emitted on an element
the DTD didn't provide for will result in an invalid document.

Cheers,

Eliot

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