RE: [xsl] Node renaming problem

This has turned into a product-specific question, not an XSLT question.
I've no idea how Internet Explorer matches the namespaces used in an XML
fragment generated using XSLT with namespaces declared in the HTML
document that your including it into. You'll have to ask a Microsoftie.

However, your post has highlighted that the XSLT 1.0 spec doesn't say
what should happen when you write <xsl:element name="m:something"/> and
the namespace prefix m isn't declared. So thanks, it's been useful!

Michael Kay
Software AG
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work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Faron
> Sent: 10 October 2002 17:09
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] Node renaming problem
> 
> 
> At 02:10 AM 10/10/2002, you wrote:
> > > I want to add a prefix to a particular node tree such that <math>
> > >    <apply>
> > >      <power/>
> > >      <ci>x</ci>
> > >      <cn>2</cn>
> > >    </apply>
> > > </math>
> > >
> > > becomes
> > >
> > > <m:math>
> > >    <m:apply>
> > >      <m:power/>
> > >      <m:ci>x</m:ci>
> > >      <m:cn>2</m:cn>
> > >    </m:apply>
> > > </m:math>
> >
> >Presumably you want the result to be well-formed XML, in 
> which case the 
> >"m" namespace must be declared? If not (and perhaps anyway), 
> your best 
> >bet is to do a global replace using a text editor.
> 
>    This is dynamic input from an html page component.  I'm 
> basically using 
> a Java-based MathML editor to let the user construct a formula.  That 
> MathML-formatted formula is then fed through an html form input and 
> displayed in the subsequent page via Internet Explorer's 
> Behavior assigning 
> ability.  The top of new page looks like this:
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; 
> xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML";>
>    <head>
>      <title>Variable on One Side</title>
>      <!-- Design Science MathPlayer -->
>      <object id="behave1" 
> classid="clsid:32F66A20-7614-11D4-BD11-00104BD3F987"><!-- --></object>
>      <?import namespace="m" implementation="#behave1" ?>
>    </head>
> ...
> 
> The behavior looks for all tags that are prefixed with the 
> "m" namespace, 
> because that is what I instruct it to do in order to 
> distinguish it from 
> html markup.
> 
> >Giving the elements a prefix of "m" is cosmetic.
> 
>    I thought it was required for the plugin to identify which 
> elements that 
> it is responsible for.
> 
> >The key question is
> >what namespace you want the elements in. You haven't bound 
> "m" to any 
> >namespace. The spec says "the QName is expanded into an 
> expanded-name 
> >(ie., a namespace-uri/local-name pair) using the namespace 
> declarations 
> >in effect for the xsl:element element". It doesn't actually say what 
> >happens if the prefix isn't in scope. Interestingly, this 
> omission is 
> >still present in the XSLT 2.0 draft. My interpretation has 
> always been 
> >that it is an error, but your XSLT processor seems to interpret it 
> >differently, or to attempt a recovery action.
> > >
> > > This is the result using MSXSL4.0:
> > > <m:math xmlns="">
> > >    <m:apply xmlns="">
> > >      <m:power xmlns="" />
> > >      <ci>x</ci>
> > >      <cn>2</cn>
> > >    </m:apply>
> > > </m:math>
> >
> >This isn't well-formed XML, so I don't think any XSLT 
> processor should 
> >produce this result. Raise a bug report.
> 
>    For the sake of succinctness in the original post, I left out the 
> wrapping tag that I generated in root-matching template that 
> looked like <result  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; 
> xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML";>...</result>
>    Doesn't this satisfy the namespace definition?
> 
> > > 3) Am I overcomplicating everything?
> > >
> >The key question is, are you trying to produce namespace-well-formed 
> >XML output, and if so, what namespace do you want it in?
> 
>    I want most of the output in the default namespace (for 
> traditional html 
> rendering) and small portions of it in the "m" namespace 
> which is mapped to 
> "http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML";.
> 
> 
> Greg Faron
> Integre Technical Publishing Co.
> 
> 
> 
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