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XML document with root element named "root" and a child of root named "meta" is serialized as HTML when run through a transformation stripping namespaces

Added by Martin Honnen almost 7 years ago

Over on StackOverflow someone was asking about stripping namespaces from an XML input document, when testing the stylesheet

to do this from the command line with Saxon 9.8.0.3 (EE as well as HE) I get a strange result for a document that has a root element named @root@ with a child element named @meta@, it seems Saxon serializes the result with method @html@.

Here is the input:




	
		M
		1976-07-19
		ENG
	
	
This is a test.

the output I get is




   

      M

      1976-07-19

      ENG



   
This is a test.

When I reduce the stylesheet to only say

I get the correct result (the @xml@ serialization):




        
                M
                1976-07-19
                ENG
        
        
This is a test.

I haven't found anything in the XSLT 3.0 or XSLT 3.1 serialization specs explaining the @html@ serialization for the first stylesheet.


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RE: XML document with root element named "root" and a child of root named "meta" is serialized as HTML when run through a transformation stripping namespaces - Added by Michael Kay almost 7 years ago

Was it intentional to put < xsl:output method="html" /> in the stylesheet? That's always going to produce odd results if the document isn't actually HTML.

RE: XML document with root element named "root" and a child of root named "meta" is serialized as HTML when run through a transformation stripping namespaces - Added by Martin Honnen almost 7 years ago

Sorry about that thread, I wrote the stylesheet in Netbeans instead of oXygen and somehow did not manage to notice that Netbeans had put @<xsl:output method="html"/>@ in there, even after wondering why I got the odd @html@ serialization. Of course that explains the problem.

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