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Michael Kay wrote: >>How can I avoid, that with <xsl:element name="{name()}"> and >>a namespace-prefix in this name, I get a namespace >>declaration in my output on mostly all elements created this >>way? Is there some strategy, to get the namespace declaration >>only once in my root element? >> >>Transformers work quite differently on this point (eg. msxslt >>apparently avoids itself superfluous declarations), so I'm >>wondering if there is a general approach at all. > > > Most XSLT processors will avoid outputting redundant namespace > declarations, but there is no way of forcing them to do so. > > What processor are you using and what output are you getting? xsltproc, msxslt, saxon, xalan Well, your saxon avoids redundant namespace declarations as well! :-) Because of speed reasons, I often use xsltproc to test my stylesheets during development process. But little by little, I get the impression, that xsltproc is not such a good choice for this task. To many differences from standard behavior occurred in the last time. > Why are you using <xsl:element name="{name()}"> rather than <xsl:copy>? I have to manipulate the text content of these nodes (for the ones, that have "[]" around themselves, I use a separate lookup table, replacing the actual [value] by the one I found). ... <arc:ReferenceSet> <arc:Reference linkId="[parentdokid]" refType="parent-pointer"/> </arc:ReferenceSet> ... <arc:KeywordSet> <arc:Keyword>[selektormax]</arc:Keyword> ... Regards, Georges > There is an important difference: xsl:copy puts the new element in the > same namespace as the original, whereas <xsl:element name="{name()}"> > looks for a namespace declaration in the stylesheet that has the same > namespace prefix as the original name in the source document. > > Michael Kay > Software AG > home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx > work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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