I think it's a reasonable assumption that as a provider of SAX events,
an XSLT transformer is expected to mimic an XMLReader with the default
settings of the namespace features: not just because these are the
defaults, but because XSLT is intrinsically namespace-aware.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> Nikolai Grigoriev
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> Subject:  JAXP: namespaces/namespace-prefixes features 
> for SAXResult
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am reading output of an XSLT transformation through 
> javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXResult. It looks very similar 
> to using an XMLReader: I set a ContentHandler and 
> get information through its callbacks. However, an
> XMLReader can deliver parse results in a variety 
> of ways. In particular:
> 
> - qNames can be present or null;
> - start/endPrefixMapping() events may be fired or skipped;
> - xmlns:* attributes may be present or absent in the attribute lists.
> 
> For an XMLReader, I can tame this zoo through setFeature() 
> method, using 
> two features http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces and 
> http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes
> (a  table at 
> http://www.saxproject.org/?selected=namespaces, 
> "Configuring Namespace Support" unambiguously defines behaviour 
> for each feature combination). Even if the parser does not support 
> a particular pairing, I can at least query its capabilities, 
> and adjust 
> my ContentHandler accordingly.
> 
> Now I pass to JAXP. The same ContentHandler is fed to a Transformer 
> (wrapped into a SAXResult); so I would expect either the Transformer 
> or its mother TransformerFactory to recognize SAX2 features. I have 
> browsed the whole JAXP 1.1 specification looking for a way to set 
> (or at least to query) the features, but in vain. I could not 
> even find 
> the exact description of the default behaviour. Looks like the choice 
> of values for SAX properties is implementation-dependent - 
> but this would undermine the whole idea of pluggability, so I 
> am definitely 
> missing some important piece of the puzzle.
> 
> In view of the above, my questions are:
> 
> 1) What is the default behaviour of Transformer wrt 
> namespaces/namespace-prefixes? Where in the JAXP spec 
> is it defined?
> 
> 2) Can I query or modify SAX2 parser features for a JAXP 
> Transformer object?  If yes, how?
> 
> Thanks to anyone willing to get me out of the impasse.
> 
> Regards,
> Nikolai Grigoriev
> RenderX
> 
> 
> 
> 
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