6.8. Namespace Aliases

When creating new elements it may be necessary to create an element that has a namespace. However, it is often not feasible to use the namespace directly as the name of an LRE, so the XSLT specification provides a mechanism to supply an alias for the prefix of a namespace. The <xsl:namespace-alias> element is used to define an alias for a namespace prefix. As shown in the following element model definition, the <xsl:namespace-alias> element is an empty top-level element with two attributes.

<!-- Category: top-level-element -->
<xsl:namespace-alias
  stylesheet-prefix = prefix | "#default"
  result-prefix = prefix | "#default" />

The stylesheet-prefix attribute is used to specify the namespace prefix that will be used in the ...

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