RE: [xsl] Namespace problem

["Trevor Nicholls" <trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Martin

Thank you for pointing out the distinction between an attribute and a
namespace node, I wasn't aware of that.

If I could use XSL 2.0 it would be easy, but unfortunately this stylesheet
is run as part of FrameMaker's XML document load process, and it is thus
limited to XSL 1.0 (Xalan, there is no alternative). Is there a version of
your solution that would work in XSL 1?

Cheers
Trevor

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Honnen [mailto:Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 2:48 a.m.
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] Namespace problem

Trevor Nicholls wrote:

> My root elements used to have local attributes, but now, thanks to the
> miracle of XSD, they have two additional attributes, e.g.
>   <document
>     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";

In the XSLT/XPath data model xmlns:xsi is not modelled as an attribute 
but rather as a namespace node.

>     xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../xml_utils/hcdocs.xsd"
>     index="N"
>     mark="Y">
> 
> The stylesheet generating the output XML creates the DTD declaration with
>   <xsl:output
>     doctype-system="../../xml_utils/fmdocs.dtd"
>     method="xml"
>     encoding="UTF-8" />
> 
> and has some null templates suppressing attributes which are not needed in
> the output documents, eg:
>   <xsl:template match="@indx|@mark|@formatted" />
>   <xsl:template match="@rowspan[string(.)='1']" />
>   <xsl:template match="@colspan[string(.)='1']" />
>   <xsl:template match="@xml:space" />
> 
> Using the last of these as a "template" :-) I added two new lines to the
> stylesheet doing this job for the schema version of the input:
>   <xsl:template match="@xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation" />
>   <xsl:template match="@xmlns:xsi" />
> 
> These generate an error, because I haven't declared the namespaces, so I
> added
>   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>   xmlns:xmlns=""
> 
> to the <xsl:stylesheet> declaration, thinking this would drop both
> attributes. I wasn't sure what to put in the xmlns:xmlns one, as xmlns
seems
> to be a bit of a special case. However whatever I try isn't helping: the
> xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocattion attribute is being dropped, but the
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; attribute is not.

You will need to avoid copying namespace nodes you don't want to be 
copied. In XSLT 2.0 you can use e.g.
   <xsl:copy copy-namespaces="no">
respectively
   <xsl:copy-of select="foo" copy-namespaces="no"/>

You will need to show us more of your stylesheet for suggestions on 
where exactly you need that.


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