Before your XML can be transformed it has to be parsed, and it cannot be
parsed because it is not well-formed according to the rules of
XML+Namespaces.

The fact that your XML has no namespaces is irrelevant. The rules of
XML+Namespaces don't require namespaces to be present, but they say that you
can't use colons except in certain particular ways.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SINGH Navpreet [mailto:navpreet.singh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 26 March 2009 01:02
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  A colon is not allowed in the name
> 
> Hi Michael,
> This thread's discussion heads in another direction. Just 
> want to clarify it finally.
> 
> My xml does not have any namespace declaration, only the xsl 
> file has it.
> 
> So when I try to generate PDF out of it with 
> "javax.xml.transform.Transformer", Transformer parses the xsl 
> file and not the xml file. But error causing line is in xml 
> (<?QM: GENERATOR [Ref] 10055: ParaHeading: NEW?> ) not in 
> xsl. So why am I getting the error.
> 
> Thanks,
> Navpreet.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, 26 March 2009 8:29 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  A colon is not allowed in the name
> 
> 
>  
> > 
> > Just wondering, if there is a way to disable the namespace 
> > awareness while parsing the xml document, using 
> > "javax.xml.transform.Transformer".
> > 
> 
> I think some XML parsers probably still allow you to parse
> non-namespace-aware XML, if you set the right switches. But
> javax.xml.transform.Transformer is not an interface to XML parsers, it
> is an
> interface to XSLT processors, and XSLT requires namespace-well-formed
> input.
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> 
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