Re: [xsl] XML with Default Namespace

["Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/2/07, Karl Stubsjoen <kstubs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok, some progress, but I can't seem to get rid of the attribute, xmlns:o.
> In my identity copy, I am trying match on attribute o, like this:
>
>         <xsl:template match="@o" mode="transform"/>
>
> My node match looks like this:
>
> <xsl:template match="@* | node()" mode="transform">
> <xsl:copy>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*" mode="transform"/>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="node()" mode="transform"/>
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> My XSL decleration includes the exclude prefix for "o", but thinking
> that that is out of context, this just excludes prefixes that the xsl
> document would produce, correct?  Not prefixes associated with the
> source xml.

When you copy a node you copy it's namespace too - the two are bound
in stone and cannot be separated :)

exclude-result-prefixes will only exclude namespaces that aren't used
in the output (think about the "xs" namespace in 2.0) - it cannot
change the names of nodes that are copied to the output.... so if you
want to a have a node in the output with the same local-name as the
current node, then you need to create it:

<xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
  </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

and for attributes:

<xsl:template match="@*">
	<xsl:attribute name="{local-name()}">
		<xsl:value-of select="."/>
	</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>


> Wow!  I feel like such a beginner when it comes to namespaces!

You're not alone, I think everyone struggles with them.  The Excel
worksheet XML doesn't exactly use them well either....


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