Re: [xsl] Controlling attributes and xsi:type

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Nick Leaton wrote:
> I'm trying to output some xml from and XSLT 2.0 stylesheet.
>
> The format is outside of my control - third party - and its picky.
>
> The output is as follows.
>
>     <calypso:cashflow xsi:type="calypso:CashflowSimple">
> 				...
>     </calypso:cashflow>
> 									
> Header of the stylesheet is this
>
> <xsl:stylesheet
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>     xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
>     xmlns:calypso="http://www.calypso.com/xml";
>     version="2.0"
>     exclude-result-prefixes="xs xsl"
>     >
>
> xsl to output looks like this
>
>         <xsl:element name="calypso:cashflow">
>             <xsl:attribute
>                 name="xsi:type"
>                 namespace="http://www.calypso.com/xml";
>                 select="'calypso:CashflowSimple'"
>                 />					
>                 ...
> 	</xsl:element>							
> 				
> The output produced is this
>
>         <calypso:cashflow xmlns:xsi="http://www.calypso.com/xml";
> xsi:type="calypso:CashflowSimple">
>
> The third party app doesn't accept the
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.calypso.com/xml"; as an attribute.
>
> How can I supress this attribute for the element?

I would use literal result elements as much as possible e.g.
  <calypso:cashflow xsi:type="calypso:CashflowSimple">
is possible in your stylesheet.
Then simply put
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
on your xsl:stylesheet or xsl:transform element and all should work fine.
If you really need to create/compute the attribute with xsl:attribute 
then use
  <xsl:attribute name="xsi:type" 
namespace="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; 
select="'calypso:CashflowSimpl'"/>


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