That is a fantastic function David. Wow!

However, when I run it I get this error message at the copy-of element:

  XTDE0430: Cannot create two namespace nodes with the same prefix mapped to
different URIs
  (prefix="", URI=http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink,
URI=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema)

Any thoughts?

/Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 11:05 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Costello, Roger L.
Subject: Re:  Losing a namespace declaration while merging two elements


<xsl:function name="f:merge">
  <xsl:param name="ref-item" />
  <xsl:param name="refed-item" />
  <xsl:for-each select="$ref-item">
   <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:copy-of
      select="@* except @ref,$refed-item/(namespace::*,@*,*)"/>
   </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:function>


produces


  saxon9 atts.xml atts.xsl
<attribute xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" name="href" type="xsd:anyURI"/>


David

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