> Perhaps this was due to having passed the SAX Source to an xslt
> transformer (saxon). I suppose it's possible saxon changed the
> namespace-awareness after I had already set it?
Yes, if you supply an XMLReader to Saxon, Saxon will set it to
namespace-aware before calling it. Some applications might be able to
handle XML that isn't namespace-well-formed, but XSLT can't. If you
really want to handle such documents in XSLT, your best bet is to
replace the ":" characters by something else, e.g. "..".
Michael Kay
Saxonica
