Re: [xml] namespace-alias result-prefix

[Age Jan Kuperus <AgeJan Kuperus wur nl>]

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.


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with kind regards,

Age Jan Kuperus
Bibliotheek Wageningen UR