Re: [xsl] Correcting unbound namespace prefixes

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I forgot to mention that make_parser() comes from importing 
"xml.sax", and "handler" is an instance of a class derived from 
importing "xml.sax.handler" that intercepts the start of element 
event while recreating the output, injecting your required namespace 
declarations.

But, really, I should have told you this on XML Dev.

. . . . . . . . . Ken

At 2010-08-02 12:22 -0400, I wrote:
> At 2010-08-02 09:08 -0700, Tony Nassar wrote:
> > I'm not sure this is the correct place to post.
>
> It isn't, because it isn't related to XSLT or XSL-FO.  I'm not the 
> moderator, but the moderator is very busy this week running the 
> Balisage conference with her colleagues.
>
> Post your to the OASIS XML-Dev list where people can help you 
> regarding such questions.
>
> Personally, since you mention Python and I am a fan of Python, I 
> would try to run this as follows (though I haven't tested it):
>
> parser = make_parser()
> parser.setFeature( "http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces";, False )
> parser.setContentHandler( handler )
> parser.parse( fileIn )
>
> .... where "handler" find elements that have a prefix and makes 
> assumptions about the namespaces required for those prefixes.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
> > This may be a question about JAXP, or simply about good standard 
> > operating procedure for bad input data.
> >
> > I've got some XML that I know is invalid, but I'm not in a position 
> > to get the customer to fix it. Here's what it looks like:
> >
> > <document>
> >    <text>Four score and twenty years ago..,</text>
> >    <pp:metadata publication-date="2010-07-31T12:30:00Z" />
> >   ...
> >
> > You get the idea (I hope): clearly someone began with XML in the "" 
> > namespace, extracted metadata in a post-processing step, and 
> > inserted the corresponding markup without adding the necessary 
> > namespace declarations or mapping "pp" to one. I don't know of a 
> > way to fix this through the JAXP API (i.e. interpolating the prefix 
> > mapping). Or am I better off just preprocessing this XML via Perl 
> > or Python before it's ever parsed?
> >
> >
> > Tony Nassar Ph.D.
> > Palantir Technologies | Forward Deployed Engineer


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