RE: [xsl] Adding/Coercing a Namespace

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I haven't understood the detail of your problem, but the general
solution in XSLT 1.0 to adding a namespace that isn't statically known
is:

<xsl:variable name="a">
  <xsl:element name="p:dummy" namespace="{$param}"/.
</xsl:variable>

<some-element>
  <xsl:copy-of select="xx:node-set($a)//namespace::p"/>
</some-element>

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Richard Lander
> Sent: 14 February 2003 17:09
> To: xsl-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Adding/Coercing a Namespace
> 
> 
>  Morning,
> 
> I've got an interesting problem that I've never encountered 
> before, and don't quite know how to solve in an elegant way.
> 
> I've got an XML file that maps XPaths to something else. The 
> XPaths are namespace qualified, along the lines of 'cs:para'.
> 
> I then transform [1] that file into a transform [2]. 
> 
> In the first transform, I have something like:
> 
> <x:transform version="1.0" xmlns:cs="myNs">
> 
> Note that I'm using namespace aliasing, hense the 'x:'.
> 
> In the second transform, I naturally end up with something like:
> 
> <xslt:transform version="1.0" 
> xmlns:xslt="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
> xmlns:cs="myNs" xmlns:other="otherNs">
> 
> It includes templates such as:
> 
> <xslt:template match="cs:para">
> 	<other:foo/>
> </xslt:template>
> 
> I'm not particularly fond of this approach. I'd like some way 
> of coercing the myNs namespace to be added to transform 2. 
> Other namespaces are auto-added to the second transform, as 
> they are part of the content of the first transform. myNs is 
> not part of the content of first transform. In fact, I'd like 
> to use my scheme with several different namespaces, so do not 
> want to have to mod transform 1 for each one.
> 
> I guess that I could add a fake template in an included 
> transform that included some elements in the myNs namespace. 
> Might that coerce the namespace in the way that I want?
> 
> Hopefully this makes sense.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
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