RE: [xsl] Problems with outputing namespaces

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You're creating the element with:

   <xsl:element name="policy"
namespace="http://www.foo.net/cml/NetworkProtector/fwm";>

The XSLT 1.0 specification says:

"XSLT processors may make use of the prefix of the QName specified in the
name attribute when selecting the prefix used for outputting the created
element as XML; however, they are not required to do so."

It looks as if you're out of luck: you've chosen an XSLT processor that (at
least in this situation) ignores the [absence of a] prefix in the name
attribute.

Many XSLT 1.0 processors do make use of the prefix (or its absence), and
XSLT 2.0 mandates that they should do so unless there's a conflict with
another use of the same prefix:

"The prefix of the lexical QName specified in the name attribute (or the
absence of a prefix) is copied to the prefix part of the expanded-QName
representing the name of the new element node. In the event of a conflict
this prefix (or absence of a prefix) may subsequently be changed during the
namespace fixup process (see 5.7.3 Namespace Fixup)."

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlie Consumer [mailto:faceless1976@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 09 December 2005 16:53
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Problems with outputing namespaces
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm doing a XML to XML transformation with a
> stylesheet.  The problem I'm having it that the xmlns
> attribute is being outputted differently than it came
> in.  So before it looks like:
> 
> <policy
> xmlns="http://www.foo.net/cml/NetworkProtector/fwm";
> ... >
> 
> after it looks like:
> 
> <fwm:policy
> xmlns:fwm="http://www.foo.net/cml/NetworkProtector/fwm";
> ...>
> 
> I'm using the JDK 1.5 JAXP 1.3 which is XSLTC as my
> stylesheet library.  Previous I had been using XALAN. 
> Here is the first portion of my stylesheet:
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:npcommon="http://www.foo.net/cml/NetworkProtector/common";
> xmlns:fwm="http://www.foo.net/cml/NetworkProtector/fwm";
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; >
>    <xsl:output encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"
> method="xml"/>
> 
>    <xsl:template match="fwm:policy">
>    <xsl:variable name="nodesToMesh"
> select="$localMesh/member[not(@component=$localComponent)
> and not(@removed)]"/>
>    
>    <xsl:element name="policy"
> namespace="http://www.foo.net/cml/NetworkProtector/fwm";>
>      <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
>      <xsl:apply-templates mode="access"
> select="$nodesToMesh"/>
>      <xsl:apply-templates select="fwm:Policy"/>
>      <xsl:apply-templates mode="ipsec"
> select="$nodesToMesh"/>
>      <xsl:apply-templates select="fwm:IPSECRules"/>
>      <xsl:apply-templates select="fwm:CommonLists"/>
>      <xsl:apply-templates
> select="fwm:SecurityGateways"/>
>      <xsl:apply-templates select="fwm:MessageConfig"/>
>      <xsl:apply-templates
> select="fwm:ProxyRedirectRule"/>
>      <xsl:apply-templates
> select="fwm:VpnAdvancedSettings"/>
>      <xsl:apply-templates select="fwm:TuningSetting"/>
>    </xsl:element>
> </xsl:template> 
> 
> What I'm trying to accomplish is just no prefixes with
> fwm: and my xmlns attribute to carry no xmlns:fwm, but
> instead be just xmlns.  Why is this not working?
> 
> Thanks
> Charlie
> 
> 
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