multiple namespace declarations - null transformer

Hi,

 

I have a stylesheet that evaluates the attached xml. If the xml has the same namespace (with different prefixs), declared multiple times, within different xml elements, then Saxon 6.5.3 returns a null Transformer object from this API:

Transformer xformer = ((Templates)cachedTemplates).newTransformer( );

This doesn't happen always, but is quite frequent.

 

The fix was to simply remove the redundant namespace declarations in the xml, combining them into one global declaration.

Before we had:

<q1:tag>...
<q2:tag>...

<q3:tag>...

where q1/2/3 all referred to the same namespace uri.

 

Changing it to:

<q:tag>

<q:tag>

<q:tag>

fixed the problem.

Any clue as to why this would cause a null Transformer object to be returned ?

Thanks, Sonali

MultipleNamespacePrefixes.xml
Description: MultipleNamespacePrefixes.xml

1.xsl
Description: 1.xsl