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From: "Anthony Jones" <Ant@------------.--->
To: NULL
Date: 5/9/2006 2:33:00 PM



"Y. Sforza" <sforza@s...> wrote in message
news:1147175994.416089.14750@g......
> According to xslt specs it is an error when you produce xml element
> which name has unknown prefix (i.e. no namespace is bound to that
> prefix).
> Well, let's imagine some legacy application (created before namespaces
> were introduced) which uses xml in namespace-unaware fashion but uses
> prefixed names. For example smth like
> <x:dummy/>
> Is it possible to generate such a xml (with prefixed name, but no
> namespace) using xslt 1.0?
> Afaik, the only way to do this is to use <xsl:text> with disabled
> output escaping.
> Are there more ellegant workarounds or tricks?
>

Invent a namespace for x, perhaps?
Hopefully the non-conformant app will simply ignore the
xmlns:x="urn:tempuri.org:imadethisup"  in the xml.
If not it would better to simple post-process the output xml to strip it
off.

Anthony.

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