Re: [xsl] namespace problem with DOM parsed stylesheets

[Oleg Tkachenko <olegt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Pediaditakis wrote:

> I have a proble in processing stylesheets that have been pre-parsed to 
> DOM trees.
> Specifically, think of an xslt portion such as:
>
> 1<xsl:stylesheet  xmlns:n = "uri:aNamespace" ...>
>  ....
> 2   <xsl:template match="n:anElement">
>        ....
> 3          <n:anotherElement>
>                   ...
> 4           </n:anotherElement>
>        ....
> 5   </xsl:template>
> 6 </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> When this is parsed, the prefix information is lost in the DOM tree (or 
> at least is not directly accessible - DOM-2).
> When I try to apply this stylesheet (xalan), it complains that "n" is 
> not associate to a namespace in line 2.

afaik, namespace support in DOM is optional. Are sure your DOM object is 
namespace-aware? See 
http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/dist/1.1/docs/api/javax/xml/parsers/DocumentBuilderFactory.html#setNamespaceAware(boolean)
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Oleg Tkachenko
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
Multiconn Technologies, Israel


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