Saxon

Legacy ID: #5019042 Legacy Poster: Scott Parkey (s_parkey)

When I have the following XML file named samplein.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Document xmlns="namespace" xmlns:xsi="http://www.namespacexsi.com&quot;/> and I run the following Java program: import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory; import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; import net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl; public class SaxonTest { public static void main(String[] args) { try { // Read an XML file to a DOM DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder db = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); org.w3c.dom.Document doc = db.parse(new File("samplein.xml")); // Output a DOM to an XML file TransformerFactory tFactory = new TransformerFactoryImpl(); Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(); DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc); FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("sampleout.xml"); transformer.transform(source, new StreamResult(fos)); } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } it outputs the following XML file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Document xmlns:xsi="http://www.namespacexsi.com&quot;/> Notice that the xmlns="namespace" attribute is now missing. But the code above looks like it should do nothing but read an XML as a DOM and output the DOM back to an XML file. When I change the code to use a different TransformerFactory than Saxon, it produces the same file as it was given. So why does Saxon remove the namespace attribute?