Re: namespace transform issue

My code looks like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<alex:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.alex.com"
xmlns:larry="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"  version="1.0">
<alex:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="alex" result-prefix="xsl"/>

you have that backwards! You are writing an xsl stylesheet, and you are
using alex: as the prefix for XSL instructions so you need to make alex
the namespace http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform. Otherwise the XSL
processor won't see <alex:stylesheet as the start of the stylesheet but
as a literal result element. 
Having a literal result element at th etop is legal in the simplified
syntax, so long as you have an xsl:version attribute, 

> Xalan refuses to transform unless http://alex.com is replaced with
> http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform.

Well without that, it can't know that you intended this to be a
stylesheet.

> I thought this URL had nothing to do with transforming,
On the contrary, it has everything to with transforming.
Elements in that namespace are XSLT instructions for making
transformations, elements in any other namespace are just
copied to the output.

David

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