Re: how to define a namespace-prefix for null-namespac

Your last sentence also means that in the XSLT-Spec,
exists no "dummy"-namespace as placeholder for that "no-namespace"
like in my second trial:
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" ....  xmlns:my="#default">
  <xsl:template match="my:*">
... ?

Is there any other way to avoid changing
all the xpath-selection rsp.
all the match-patterns of
my stylesheet, when the input-document will be decorated by a namespace.

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" ....  >
  <xsl:template match="root">
       <xsl:apply-template select="tag1/tag2[tag3]"/>
...
into

As far as I know it is neither possible to use empty namespace-prefix, like
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" ....  xmlns="http://www.my.thenewnamespace">
  <xsl:template match="root">
       <xsl:apply-template select="tag1/tag2[tag3]"/>

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 In my XSLT-stylesheet I wanted to define a xmlns-prefix for that
 null-namespace,

The XML Namespaces rec does not allow a prefix to be used with
no-namespaace.

With XML Namespace 1.0 (which is the version used by almost all systems)
xmlns:my=""
is a syntax error.
With WXML Namespace 1.1 xmlns:my="" is allowed but it does not make
<my:foo/> refer to foo in no-namespace it unbinds the prefix my (if it
had already been bound) so making <my:foo/> an error.

So your requested result isn't conformant to the XML namespaces rec, and
XSLT won't generate it for you.

David

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