control over location of namespace declarations in XSLT

[Christian Hoertnagl]

I have to create an XML document with repeating namespace definitions such as:

<a xmlns:ns1="...">
<!-- ... -->
<b xmlns:ns1="...">
<!-- ... -->
</b>
</a>

This is required by the software that sees this output. My XSLT file includes these definitions at the right places, but when I do a transformation (with Java 1.4's Transformer class) the inner definition is optimized away. Is there a way how I can preserve my declarations exactly as specified in the XSTL document?

Thanks for any help,
Christian

 

[Martin Honnen]

I have to create an XML document with repeating namespace definitions such as:

<a xmlns:ns1="...">
<!-- ... -->
<b xmlns:ns1="...">
<!-- ... -->
</b>
</a>

This is required by the software that sees this output. My XSLT file includes these definitions at the right places, but when I do a transformation (with Java 1.4's Transformer class) the inner definition is optimized away. Is there a way how I can preserve my declarations exactly as specified in the XSTL document?

I don't think so, when serializing XML it is allowed and quite common the reduce xmlns attributes to the necessary minimum.