Re: conditional namespaces

>We  are a bit puzzled by the results we get from saxon and xalan when we 
>try to generate XML with a xslt file in which the attribute on the root 
>element is a varaibel as well as it's value and the namespace.
>
You have introduced a namespace into the stylesheet without
associating it with a prefix, so the XSLT processor is obliged to
invent one.  Different processors use different algorithms to do so.
It makes no difference to the validity of the output: when it comes to
namespaces its the URI that counts, not the prefix.

If a namespace has a prefix associated with it either in the input or
in the stylesheet processors will often use this prefix in the output.
But this is merely a feature, and isn't required by the XSLT spec.

Regards,
Trevor Nash
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