Re: [xsl] How to remove unnecessary "xmlns:xx" attributes?

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wolfgang,


> If one of the grand wizards would kindly review my solution:

That won't be me, but let's give it a try regardless ;)

>    <xsl:copy copy-namespaces = "no">

You don't want the namespaces but the output:

>      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <doc xmlns="p/q/r" xmlns:abc="a/b/c" xmlns:def="d/e/f" xmlns:ghi="g/h/i">
>    <abc:bef>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog</abc:bef>

still contains them. Reason? You are copying nodes that belong to a 
certain namespace, not copying it would mean that the copy had changed 
the node name, which it cannot do. The only thing that 
copy-namespaces="no" prevents is adding the namespace to the node itself 
(and its children). The mandatory namespace fixup process then makes 
sure that the element belongs to the correct namespace by applying the 
correct namespace prefix.

If you want to keep the local part and remove the namespace part of an 
element, you'll have to use xsl:element with only a local-part. This 
will create different elements and it is likely that if your XML 
document is meant to be processed by any application that expects the 
elements in a certain namespace, that the application will fail.

Kind regards,

Abel Braaksma