> I'm also using xalan-j, and I've used this sort of code to 
> avoid the empty namespace declaration:
> 
<SNIP>Code example</SNIP>

> 
> ***
> 
> As I understand it, because you've named the XHTML namespace as the 
> null-prefix namespace,
> and you've assigned the elements in your stylesheet to that 
> namespace (by 
> not putting a prefix
> on them or explicitly assigning them to something), XSLT is 
> concluding that 
> the output elements
> belong to that null-prefix namespace. I'm working around that 
> by explicitly 
> assigning them to the
> namespace that I'm excluding from my results. I still use the 
> null-prefix 
> namespace declaration in
> my output by declaring it in the html element above. You'd 
> just need to 
> replace my uses of oeb
> with your uses of XHTML.
> 
> I've had good results with this -- hope it helps!

Indeed it does :)

Thank you Chris.

Regards,
Flemming

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