Re: [xsl] Namespace problem

[Marc Schneider <mschneider@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dave -

Since WSDL files have QName in attributes, the namespace prefix in the 
attribute can be any in-scope namespace. This deviation from the XPath data 
model makes it very difficult to process WSDL files.

Marc

At 04:27 PM 9/13/2004, you wrote:
> > Hello -
> >
> > I may have spoken too soon when I said that using current() did the
> trick.
> > This apparently works in XalanJ, but XalanC v1.7 appears to have a
> problem
> > with namespace::* and doesn't evaluate namespace::*[starts-with(name(),
> > substring-before(current()/parent::node()/@name,':'))] correctly.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I need to support XalanC v1.7, does anyone know of a way
> to
> > resolve a namespace URI from the prefix in XalanC 1.7?
>
> This is a case where Xalan-C deviates from the XPath data model, and does
> not have a namespace node for every in-scope namespace on every element.
> The following stylesheet produces the desired result:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>         xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/";
>         version="1.0">
>
> <xsl:output encoding="utf-8" />
>
> <xsl:template match="wsdl:operation">
>   <xsl:element name="operation">
>     <xsl:choose>
>       <xsl:when test="contains(parent::node()/@name,':')">
>           <xsl:variable name="ns"
> select="substring-before(parent::node()/@name, ':')" />
>         <xsl:attribute name="portType_nspc">
>           <xsl:choose>
>             <xsl:when test="contains(parent::node()/@name,':')">
>               <xsl:value-of select="namespace::*[name() = $ns]"/>
>             </xsl:when>
>             <xsl:otherwise>
>               <xsl:value-of
> select="ancestor::*[last()]/@targetNamespace"/>
>             </xsl:otherwise>
>           </xsl:choose>
>         </xsl:attribute>
>       </xsl:when>
>       <xsl:otherwise>
>         <xsl:attribute name="portType_nspc"/>
>       </xsl:otherwise>
>     </xsl:choose>
>   </xsl:element>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> I've been tempted numerous times to fix this deviation, but the cases
> where this has caused a problem have been extremely rare, and the cost in
> memory overhead is considerable in many cases.
>
> Dave