Re: [xsl] namespace problem with DOM parsed stylesheets

[Michael Pediaditakis <mp49@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oleg Tkachenko wrote:

> 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) 

It is, since the namespaces are parsed normally (e.g. when I call 
getNamespaceURI for e.g. element in line 3 i get the "uri:aNamespace".
However, the namespace prefixes in attributes are a totally different 
thing. I think there is a "resolve" DOM method in  DOM-3 which maps
from namespace prefixes to namespaces URIs.. but most DOM 
implementations (as well the XSL-T transformer) do not support this)




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