Age Jan Kuperus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As far as I can see, the current namespace-alias implementation does exactly
> what is necessary
> according to the standard. Unfortunately, the standard defines what should
> happen with the
> namespace itself, but does not specify which prefix should be used in the
> result.
>
> The current libxslt (well, I'm using libxslt 1.1.15, but it probably has not
> changed since; at
> least there is nothing about it in the changelog) just copies the prefix used
> in the stylesheet.
>
> As a result, a stylesheet that starts with
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> xmlns:new="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/TransformAlias";>
> <xsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="new" result-prefix="xsl"/>
> <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"/>
>
> will generate a stylesheet that starts with
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <new:stylesheet xmlns:new="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> <new:output ...
>
> which is syntactically correct, but could confuse a less experienced
> stylesheet writer.
>
> As we all like to standardise ;-) I would suggest to use the value of
> result-prefix in the
> output instead.
{removed a line that on second thought didn't make sense]
>
> Please let me know whether a patch that makes this change would make it into
> the library, in
> which case I'll try to create one.
>
>
--
with kind regards,
Age Jan Kuperus
Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
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