Re: [xsl] Effect of default namespace specifications on imports

Subject: Re: [xsl] Effect of default namespace specifications on imports
From: Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:10:11 +0100
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:04 PM, G. Ken Holman
<gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 2012-10-25 16:29 +0100, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
>>
>> I am writing an XML conversion, part of which entails bringing things
>> into the new namespace (from no namespace).
>>
>> I have specified namespace X as my default namespace and my XPath
>> default namespace but all is not as expected.
>
>
> I doubt that will work for you.  Your input is in no namespace so any
> addressing you need of the input must be in no namespace, so the XPath
> default namespace should not be set to anything.
>

Of course ..... silly me. Doh!!

I recently had to remind myself that re-namespacing is effectively
renaming so will peruse the other thread but first I will see how far
the aforesuggested adjustment gets me.


>
>> I suspect it is because some elements are handled by an imported
>> identity template. Although this can be worked around this represents
>> an opportunity to get some clarification as to what the precise rules
>> are as relates to default namespace specfications and imported
>> stylesheets.
>
>
> There are no such rules regarding a relationship between default namespace
> specifications and imported stylesheets.  Each stylesheet fragment is
> standalone.  Any use of the XML default namespace or the XPath default
> namespace is in scope of only the stylesheet fragment.  There is no
> knowledge between stylesheet fragments of the use of the namespaces in other
> fragments.
>
> And I suspect the identity template will not help you if you have to change
> the namespace for each element.
>
> When changing elements only by changing their namespaces, you need to
> reconstitute each element.  I did this recently in a post on another thread:
>
>   http://markmail.org/message/mah6pm52trp4cqrm
>
> ... where you can see I'm changing the namespace and hardwiring the poster's
> choice of prefix for that namespace.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
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