Re: [xsl] [XSL] copying namesapces with prefix "xmlns:".

[siva <siva@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,
Thankx for your analysis.
And its working with saxon 6. Thats fine.
But i am using xalan 2.6. Any idea using xalan.??

Thankx
regards, Siva

David Carlisle wrote:

> saxon6 (XSLT 1) says:
>
> $ saxon bo.xml bo.xsl
> Error at xsl:copy-of on line 11 of file:/c:/tmp/bo.xsl:
>  Cannot create two namespace nodes with the same name
> Transformation failed: Run-time errors were reported
>
> saxon8 (XSLT2) says: (my indentation)
> $ saxon8 -novw bo.xml bo.xsl
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <_0:definitions
>  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>  xmlns:xpdl="http://www.wfmc.org/2002/XPDL1.0";
>  xmlns:h2w="http://test.de/h2w/bo/";
>  xmlns:bo="http://test.de/bo/";
>  xmlns="http://www.wfmc.org/2002/XPDL1.0";
>  xmlns:_0="http://test.de/schemas/wfdl/";>
> <FlowModel xmlns="ht
> tp://test.de/schemas/wfdl/"/>
> </_0:definitions>
>
>
>
> So perhaps xslt2 does what you want (it depends what you want).
> The problem is that you have conflicting definitions of the default
> namespace:
>
> The result tree already has
>
> xmlns="http://test.de/schemas/wfdl/";
>
> from the stylesheet, and then you are copying
>
> xmlns="http://www.wfmc.org/2002/XPDL1.0";
>
> from the source.
>
> In xslt1 this is an error in xslt2 the first one gets renamed. (Actually
> I haven't checked the spec again, but that's what saxon dows)
>
> You could copy all the ones except the default namespace with
>        <xsl:copy-of select="namespace::*[name()]"/>
>
> which in saxon6 gives:
> $ saxon bo.xml bo.xsl
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <definitions
>  xmlns="http://test.de/schemas/wfdl/";
>  xmlns:bo="http://test.de/bo/";
>  xmlns:h2w="http://test.de/h2w/bo/";
>  xmlns:xpdl="http://www.wfmc.org/2002/XPDL1.0";
>  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";>
> <FlowModel/>
> </definitions>
>
>
> and in saxon8 gives
> $ saxon8 -novw bo.xml bo.xsl
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <definitions
>  xmlns="http://test.de/schemas/wfdl/";
>  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>  xmlns:xpdl="http://www.wfmc.org/2002/XPDL1.0";
>  xmlns:h2w="http://test.de/h2w/bo/";
>   xmlns:bo="http://test.de/bo/";>
> <FlowModel/>
> </definitions>
>
> David
>
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