Giacomo, we need to switch on the "http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes" flag in XercesParser.java to get xmlns:map to show up properly, this will fix getting "XMLSerializers problem with namespaces" to work, But leads to more problems with "XalanTransformers problem with namespaces". More details are below. Thanks, dims Problem #2 - "XMLSerializers problem with namespaces": In XercesParser.java, add switch on one more flag as shown below then xmlns:map="http://apache.org/cocoon/sitemap/1.0" will show up when you point to http://localhost:8080/cocoon/sitemap?cocoon-view=content public void parse(InputSource in) throws SAXException, IOException { SAXParser p=new SAXParser(); p.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation",false); p.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces",true); // Add the following line to get the map:xmlns tags. p.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes",true); p.setProperty("http://xml.org/sax/properties/lexical-handler", super.lexicalHandler); p.setErrorHandler(this); p.setContentHandler(super.contentHandler); p.parse(in); } Problem #1 - "XalanTransformers problem with namespaces" : If the flag is added as shown above then pointing to URL http://localhost:8080/cocoon/sitemap has an exception. org.xml.sax.SAXException: Prefix not declared at org.apache.cocoon.xml.NamespacesTable.resolve(NamespacesTable.java:214) at org.apache.cocoon.xml.DocumentHandlerWrapper.startElement(DocumentHandlerWrapper.java:142) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser.startElement(SAXParser.java:1371) at org.apache.xerces.validators.common.XMLValidator.callStartElement(XMLValidator.java:823) at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.scanElement(XMLDocumentScanner.java:1852) at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$ContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentScanner.java:1000) at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.parseSome(XMLDocumentScanner.java:380) at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:900) at org.apache.cocoon.components.parser.XercesParser.parse(XercesParser.java:41) at org.apache.cocoon.generation.FileGenerator.generate(FileGenerator.java:31) at org.apache.cocoon.sitemap.ResourcePipeline.process(ResourcePipeline.java:164) .... .... Davanum Srinivas wrote: > >Does anyone have samples to recreate the following problems? > >- XalanTransformers problem with namespaces If you put the following snippet into a pipeline of your sitemap  and request it as http://localhost:8080/cocoon/sitemap you'll see, that there is only an empty body returned as output because of the namespace problem. If you define the xt transformer and use that instead of the XalanTransformer all will work correctly. >- XMLSerializers problem with namespaces Using the above pipeline snippet you can use the following uri http://localhost:8080/cocoon/sitemap?cocoon-view=content to see that the xml serializer swallows all the namespaces definitions. Giacomo PS: You will need the lates CVS because I've had to commit a missing css file to make the example above working. -- PWR GmbH, Organisation & Entwicklung Tel: +41 (0)1 856 2202 Giacomo Pati, CTO/CEO Fax: +41 (0)1 856 2201 Hintereichenstrasse 7 Mobil: +41 (0)78 759 7703 CH-8166 Niederweningen Mailto:Giacomo.Pati@pwr.ch Web: http://www.pwr.ch _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.