[lxml-dev] lxml namespaces

[Stefan Behnel]

Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
> http://cocoon.apache.org/2.0/faq/faq-xslt.html#faq-5
> the XSLT bit is fine. I don't quite understand why this works,
> but then I'm not that much into XSLT.

XSLT is (mostly) about copying XML trees selectively. Things you do not
copy will not appear in the result. In this case, you only copy plain
(i.e. local) element names,  not their namespaces (which may or may not be
what you want).


> Actually, seen that: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7120864.html :/

Hehe, read the title: "Eliminating superfluous namespace declarations and
undeclaring default namespaces *in XML serialization processing*". This is
about serialisation only. The (intermediate) result of an XSLT is a tree,
not a byte stream, so the namespace fixing is not part of the
serialisation process. :]

(Not that I would agree that this is worth a patent...)

Stefan