Hi,

I've got a problem with xsl:include and default namespaces which is causing the final xml document contain nodes with the xmlns=""

In this synario I have 1 source document which is Plain Old XML and doesn't have a namespace:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SourceDoc>
    <Description>Hello I'm the source description</Description>
    <Description>Hello I'm the source description 2</Description>
    <Description/>
    <Title>Hello I'm the title</Title>
</SourceDoc>

This document is transformed into 2 different xml documents each with their own default namespace.

First Document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<OutputDocType1 xmlns="http://MadeupNS1">
   <Description >Hello I'm the source description</Description>
   <Description>Hello I'm the source description 2</Description>
   <Title>Hello I'm the title</Title>
</OutputDocType1>

Second Document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<OutputDocType2 xmlns="http://MadeupNS2">
   <Description>Hello I'm the source description</Description>
   <Description>Hello I'm the source description 2</Description>
   <DocTitle>Hello I'm the title</DocTitle>
</OutputDocType2>

I want to be able to re-use the template for descriptions in both of the transforms. As it's the same logic for both types of document. To do this I created a template file which was *xsl:include*d in the other 2 transformations:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

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

    <xsl:template match="Description[. != '']">
        <Description>
            <xsl:value-of select="."/>
        </Description>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Now the problem here is that this shared transformation can't have a default Namespace as it will be different depending on which of the calling transformations calls it.

E.g. for First Document Transformation:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

    <xsl:output indent="yes" method="xml"/>
    <xsl:template match="SourceDoc">
        <OutputDocType1 xmlns="http://MadeupNS1">

            <xsl:apply-templates select="Description"/>
            <xsl:if test="Title">
                <Title>
                    <xsl:value-of select="Title"/>
                </Title>
            </xsl:if>
        </OutputDocType1>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:include href="Template.xsl"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

This actually outputs it as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<OutputDocType1 xmlns="http://MadeupNS1">
   <Description xmlns="">Hello I'm the source description</Description>
   <Description xmlns="">Hello I'm the source description 2</Description>
   <Title>Hello I'm the title</Title>
</OutputDocType1>

Here is the problem. On the description Lines I get an xmlns=""

Does anyone know how to solve this issue?

Thanks

Dave