Re: Doctype and namespaces in source/generated files

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<xsl:template match="*[not(namespace-uri())]">
than I simply xsl:copy, and apply templates. This prevents me to
specify DOCTYPE or namespaces for xhtml in the source documents, as as
soon as I specify them (in the source documents) the match rule will
stop working, and strips all my xhtml out.

So close, and yet...

Why not use:

<xsl:template match="*[namespace-uri()='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml']">

instead then?

If the result document has to be in the XHTML namespace, define:

xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

on your xsl:stylesheet element.

Use the exclude-result-prefixes attribute on xsl:stylesheet to omit other
namespaces in scope for the stylesheet.

For adding the doctype, check the applicable attributes for the xsl:output
element. Use XML as output method, and add doctype-public and doctype-system
with the appropriate values.

Thanks,
Mayo