[XALANC-435] omit-xml-declaration requires indent="yes" to behave as expected

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.8
• Fix Version/s: CurrentCVS
• Component/s: XalanC
• Environment: RedHat 9 with full patches (including all Progeny updates), kernel 2.4.20, i686, Xerces 2.5.0.
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sean Warden
• Created: 20/Sep/04 23:02
• Updated: 27/Sep/06 00:45
• Resolved: 20/Sep/04 23:19

Description

(Examples taken from O'Reilly's Learning XSLT by Michael Fitzgerald, which is how I discovered the bug.)

Here is escape.xml:
– cut –
<title>O'Reilly</title>
– cut –

Here is escape.xsl:
– cut –
<stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<template match="/">
<publisher xmlns="">
<value-of select="title" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"/>
<text disable-output-escaping="yes" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> & Associates</text>
</publisher>
</template>

</stylesheet>
– cut –

'xalan escape.xml escape.xsl' gives:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><publisher>O'Reilly & Associates</publisher>

The stylesheet explicitly states 'omit-xml-declaration', but it is printed anyway. One way I found to achieve expected behavior is to change the output element of escape.xsl to read:

<output method="xml" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

A trivial issue, to be sure, but it may be a side-effect of some other flaw.

Issue Links

• duplicates: XALANC-421 omit-xml-declaration ignored