Re: [xsl] ***********Transformation of an XML document containing a default namespace ************

[Mark Nahabedian <naha at ai dot mit dot edu>]

David Carlisle writes:
 > 
 > > There doesn't appear to be a way to control what
 > > prefixes are used in the output.
 > 
 > Not so. You can control exactly which namespace nodes appear in the
 > output. As far as can be seen all processors will use the prefixes
 > specified in those namespace nodes (rather than inventing new prefixes
 > and then adding additional namespace declarations for those prefixes)
 > so, in practice, you have exact control over the namespace prefixes used.
 > 
 > I've been using this quite a lot recently for IE client side transforms.
 > IE doesn't believe in XHTML so firstly you have to make sure all the
 > html elements get stuffed out without prefix, then if you want to use
 > the microsoft "behavio(u)rs" extensions you have to use a MS-specific PI
 > in the output binding the behaviour activex component to a _prefix_
 > so you have to ensure that the xml elements are output using the prefix
 > youve specified. Been playing with xhtml+mathml, in case you hadn't
 > already guessed...

I'm using Saxon.  It sounds like you're using some extension to MSXML.

I can see how, using standard XSLT, I can add additional namespace
nodes to the output tree, but I don't see how I can prevent namespace
nodes from the stylesheet or the input doocument from being added to
the output.  So I still doon't see a way to coontrol what namespace
prefix is used for a given namespace in the output document.



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