Re: [xsl] How to strip off all <xsd:annotation> ...</xsd.annotation> tags

[Michael Ludwig <mlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Honnen schrieb:
> Ben Stover wrote:
>
> > thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately your script show the
> > following error (when running with Saxon):

> >   XTDE0410: An attribute node (targetNamespace) cannot be created
> >   after the children of the containing element at xsl:apply-templates
> >   (file:/D:/xslt/Saxon/strip%20annotation%20tags/stripannotationtags.xsl#11)
> >      processing /xsd:schema/@targetNamespace
> >   in built-in template rule

> > Do you know what's wrong?
>
> I can't explain that error. And I have now tried the stylesheet
> against the schema http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd and it processes
> that without errors. Can you provide a minimal but complete XML input
> document that causes that error?

Ben, please keep things like this on list instead of sending mail
privately. Your stylesheet is not the one Martin posted; you introduced
a significant change:

<xsl:stylesheet xml:space="preserve"
   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
   xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
   version="2.0">

   <xsl:template match="xsd:annotation"/>

   <xsl:template match="@* | node()">
     <xsl:copy>
       <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
     </xsl:copy>
   </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The xml:space on the xsl:stylesheet is a very bad idea. It leads to
every single whitespace-only text node being relevant, which makes the
stylesheet create whitespace-only text nodes after the <xsl:template>
and after <xsl:copy> (and elsewhere). So child nodes are created
*before* applying templates to attributes. Creating attributes after
having created child nodes is not allowed.

Just to illustrate the principle here, the following will work (but it's
a very odd arrangement, avoid that):

   <xsl:template match="@* | node()"><xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates 
select="@* | node()"/>
     </xsl:copy>
   </xsl:template>

Just get rid of the xml:space="preserve" - it's the source of your
problems. Sometimes you'll want whitespace-only text nodes in your
source tree (XSLT stylesheet module) to be kept and copied, but then
you'll probably also want to localize the effect of the xml:space you
insert to achieve that effect.

--
Michael Ludwig