[xslt] Bug in exclude-result-prefixes?

[Brent M Hendricks <brent valinor waldenweb com>]

I've found what I believe to be a bug in how exclude-result-prefixes
is handled.  Take the following stylesheet:

<?xml version= "1.0" standalone="no"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:ns="http://my.namespace/"
  exclude-result-prefixes="ns">
  
 <xsl:template match="msg">
    <ns:output>
      <xsl:apply-templates />	
    </ns:output>
  </xsl:template>
  
</xsl:stylesheet>

as applied to the XML file:

<msg>Success</msg>

The output here should be something like:

<ns:output xmlns:ns="http://my.namespace/">Success</ns:output>

but xsltproc (I'm using 0.14) outputs nothing, probably because 'ns'
is specified as an an excluded prefix.  

I do not think this is this is the behavior the writers of the XSLT
spec had in mind :) My reading of section 7.1 is that
exclude-result-prefixes will prevent *extra* namespace nodes from
being added to the result element node.  I don't think it is supposed
to be used to supress result elements.


--Brent

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