Dear List,
Working through some lists of examples online and in books, I found some
ways of overriding the target namespace, but strangely enough, all seem
to create an explicit name for elements with a namespace prefix that
contains a certain namespace. I don't think that is in the true nature
of namespace, even more so, because ns prefixes are just placeholders
for the namespace and should not be manipulated by hand.
Actually, I am just looking for the best xslt-minded approach here. The
solution below works, but I would like some expert opinion on it. Just
using "copy-namespace" does not work, as the namespace fixup process
will set the original namespace back.
Requirement: Let the calling program decide what the target namespace
will be.
Input: any document or node
Parameters: $target-namespace, a string representing the target namespace
<!-- matches all attributes and all elements,
except for elements that have a name -->
<xsl:template match="*[local-name() = ''] | @*" >
<xsl:copy copy-namespaces="no">
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- matches only elements that have a name,
excluding text nodes, attributes etc -->
<xsl:template match="*[local-name() != '']" >
<!-- assign namespace -->
<xsl:element
name="{local-name()}"
namespace="{$target-namespace}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
Best regards,
Abel Braaksma
www.nuntia.nl