RE: With Saxon7.2, can an aliased namespace prefix be

Saxon's output when you use xsl:namespace-alias is inelegant but the
stylesheet that it produces is precisely equivalent to the one that you
want.

It will be improved in the next version.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Timothy Larson
> Sent: 14 November 2002 18:28
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  With Saxon7.2, can an aliased namespace prefix 
> be excludedfrom the output?
> 
> 
> With Saxon version 7.2, I am trying to apply a stylesheet to 
> a stylesheet. Is there any way to exclude the aliased 
> namespace prefix from the output?
> 
> In the sample below I am trying to get rid of the output line:
>   xmlns:x="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
> 
> Sample source stylesheet:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
>   xmlns:xsl  = "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> Sample stylesheet to apply to the source stylesheet:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
>   xmlns:xsl  = "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>   xmlns:x    = "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/TransformAlias"
>   exclude-result-prefixes="x">
>   <xsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="x" result-prefix="xsl"/>
>   <xsl:template match="/">
>     <xsl:copy>
>       <x:stylesheet>
>         <x:template m="/"><x:value-of select="test"/></x:template>
>       </x:stylesheet>
>     </xsl:copy>
>   </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> Output produced:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet
>   xmlns:x="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
>   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>   <xsl:template m="/"><xsl:value-of 
> select="test"/></xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> Output disired:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet
>   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>   <xsl:template m="/"><xsl:value-of 
> select="test"/></xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> 
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