Re: xsl:call-template , strange behaviour

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Subject: Re: xsl:call-template , strange behaviour
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 01:31:35 -0400

Mukul,

In your stylesheet, your <a/> and elements have namespace nodes on them for the "temp" namespace, which they have inherited from the xsl:stylesheet element.

Since you have not asked that this namespace be excluded, the processor can only assume that they are part of the data it should output.

Note that neither <a/> nor is *in* the temp namespace, so it is probably not accurate (or at least it's misleading) to say they are "associated with it", even though in the result the namespace declarations for temp must appear on <a/> and -- since there's no other place where temp can be declared.

Since temp is not actually used, it should be possible to suppress it by using the exclude-namespace-prefixes attribute on xsl:stylesheet. But it will be suppressed on both <a/> and -- the fact that is generated by a template named "temp:test" is a red herring. The behavior isn't strange at all -- what would be strange would be if were placed in a different namespace from the one given it by the stylesheet (the null namespace), just because of the name of the template that adds it to the result.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 12:01 AM 6/6/2005, you wrote:

I have written this stylesheet -

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:temp="http://whatever"
                version="2.0">

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />

 <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:call-template name="test" />
    <xsl:call-template name="temp:test" />
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template name="test">
   <a/>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template name="temp:test">
   <b/>
 </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

With both Xalan-J 2.6 and Saxon 8.4, I get the output
-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<a xmlns:temp="http://whatever"/>
<b xmlns:temp="http://whatever"/>

I am curious, why element <a> gets associated with the
namespace 'temp' ..?

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