RE: [xsl] generating xml with a runtime resolved default namespace

Subject: RE: [xsl] generating xml with a runtime resolved default namespace
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:49:40 -0000
>          I submit to this enlightened list a concrete XSLT 
> problem for a change. It comes from the need to have a 
> variable default namespace in the output docu- ment. That is 
> a default namespace which is known at run-time only.

In XSLT 2.0 there is an <xsl:namespace> instruction that does this.

In 1.0, the workaround is:

<xsl:variable name="dummy">
  <xsl:element name="abc:dummy" namespace="{$var}"/>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:copy-of select="xx:node-set()//namespace::abc"/>

Michael Kay
Software AG
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