[XALANJ-2409] LSSerializerImpl adds redundant xmlns:xml namespace bindings.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Serialization
• Xalan info: PatchAvailable
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Chris Simmons
• Created: 19/Oct/07 10:53
• Updated: 12/Dec/09 03:55

Description

We switched over when the xerces serializers were deprecated but found tha the xalan serializer insists on adding bindings for the xml namespace. I (and the xerces serializer) believe that this is not necessary - the xml namespace is built-in.

This resulted in our XML being littered with thousands of needless xmlns:xml=... attributes. We've worked around this by making sure we put one on the document root. I'd like to see these attributes not serialized.

I'll attach a test showing this behviour shortly. It shows that xerces didn't add them but xalan does.