Re: [xml] empty xmlns attributes

[Peter McGarvey <libxml-x packet org uk>]

I've worked out there is some sort of "namespace scoping" going on.  But
I couldn't have put it into words until you just did.  However, the fact
that my `<a href"...' wasn't comming out with the empty attribute didn't
make sense to me.

I just upgraded to 
    libxml2-2.5.3
    libxslt-1.0.26
And now it's comming out like this:

    <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; href="

Which is not what I would have expected.  But now I see that everyhitng
generated by my stylesheet has the correct namespace.  It's everything
in my src document which has no namespace.

So if I move the incorrectly places `xmlns' attribute in my source
document...

    <document xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; title....

and....  enlightenment.

Now the question is "How to get the stylesheet to assume a namespace if
none is given?"

But I think that would best be left for another time...

Thanks for the help.

* Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> [2003-02-12 17:59:49 GMT]:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:21:15PM +0000, Peter McGarvey wrote:
> > > The weirdest thing is that my theory works for me, but doesn't apply 
> > > to your example, because you get correct xmlns in your <a> tags:
>
>   Your stylesheet puts the root html element in the XHTML namespace as
> the default namespace. If you later generate XHTML element but without
> namespace in the stylesheet, libxslt will do what you asked for and
> as a result MUST eliminate the default namespace, and does that by
> outputting xmlns="" which is the *only* way to do what you ask it to do.
> Soultion is to NOT ask the stylesheet to generate XHTML element without
> namespace, and make 100% sure in your staylesheet that all generated
> element are in the default XHTML namespace.
>    You MUST read and understand the following spec before solving your
> problem:
>       http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/
>
>   <p> and <p> can represent TOTALLY different things depending on the
> default namespace context.
>
> Daniel
>
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