Hi all,



The following XML:



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<n xmlns="http://www.test.com" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/>

uses the following XSLT:



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" 
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" 
xmlns:rss1="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" exclude-result-prefixes="rss1" 
xpath-default-namespace="http://www.test.com">



	<xsl:output indent="yes" method="xml"/>



	<xsl:template match="n" >

		<rdf:RDF xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" 
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" >

			<channel>fffffff</channel>

		</rdf:RDF>

	</xsl:template>



</xsl:stylesheet>



to generate the following XML:



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
        xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
  <channel xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/">fffffff</channel>
</rdf:RDF>

I'm using XSLT 2 in Saxon 8.



The problem is I need the http://purl.org/rss/1.0/ xmlns declaration to 
appear on the root element instead of on the channel element.



I believe it is appearing where it is due to the 
xmlns:rss1="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" declaration, as when I remove this it 
works in the way I want it to. The xmlns:rss1="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" 
declaration is needed on the root element as elsewhere in the stylesheet I 
need to process an external document with elements belonging to this 
namespace.



The only way I can see to fix this is to have xpath-default-namespace 
attributes scattered at appropriate points in the stylesheet. As the 
templates do not separate easily into sections determined by which XML 
document they are working on i believe this will lead to code that is 
difficult to read.



Can anyone explain why http://purl.org/rss/1.0/ is being declared on channel 
instead of the root element?



Can anyone propose a better solution to this problem than the one I have 
come up with?



Thanks



Tom



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