[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#399875: libxslt1.1: exclude-result-prefixes not honored (regression)

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi Vincent,

In 2006, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> (Severity set to important as this is a regression -- 1.1.17-4 didn't
> have this problem -- and due to this bug, xsltproc produces invalid
> files for HTML parsers.)

If I understand the upstream response correctly, a good workaround is
to use the HTML output method.

> The exclude-result-prefixes in one of my XSLT file is not honored.
> This was working with libxslt 1.1.17 (1.1.17-4 package), but no longer
> with libxslt 1.1.18.

Since it's been a few years, I thought it might be good to revisit
this.

Any news?  Is this fixable (for example by changing the "#if 0" to
"#if 1" as described upstream) or would attempts to fix it have bad
side effects?  Should this be documented better?  Any other thoughts?

Thanks for a clear and thoughtful report,
Jonathan