1817 2005-07-26 13:54:49 +0000 [XSLT 2.0] Incorrect example for xsl:namespace 2005-07-28 22:37:52 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT XSLT 2.0 Last Call drafts PC Windows XP CLOSED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 mike mike public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 5209 0 mike 2005-07-26 13:54:49 +0000 In section 11.7, xsl:namespace, we find the example: <quote> Example: Conflicting Namespace Prefixes Given the instruction: <p:item xmlns:p="p.uri"><xsl:namespace name="p">q.uri</xsl:namespace></p:item> a possible serialization of the result tree is: <ns0:item xmlns:ns0="p.uri" xmlns:p="q.uri"/> The processor must invent a namespace prefix for the URI p.uri; it cannot use the prefix p because that prefix has been explicitly associated with a different URI. </quote> In fact, the processor is not allowed to invent a prefix for p.uri: the rules for literal result elements say that namespace nodes must be copied from the stylesheet. So there is a conflict here, which should result in error XTDE0430. Namespace prefixes can be invented only in the case of namespace nodes generated by namespace fixup. So a better example would be: <xsl:element name="p:item" xmlns:p="p.uri"> <xsl:namespace name="p">q.uri</xsl:namespace> </xsl:element> Here the processor can, and must, choose a prefix for p.uri that does not conflict with the binding of p to q.uri. Michael Kay (this originated in a Saxon bug report from Colin Adams, who pointed out that Saxon was giving different results for this example than the result stated in the spec.) 5282 1 mike 2005-07-28 22:37:32 +0000 The proposed change has been applied. I have also changed the example to use legal namespace URIs.