RE: [xsl] problem - generating XML schema via XSLT

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Namespace declarations in the source document are translated by the XML
parser into namespace nodes, they are not treated by XSLT as attribute
nodes. Therefore, a namespace declaration can never contain an attribute
value template (because it isn't an attribute).

You need to produce in the result tree a namespace node whose name
(=prefix) is "" and whose string value (=namespace URI) is "test". (It's
very confusing that you chose to use the name "prefix" to refer to the
namespace URI!

In XSLT 2.0 you can do this with

<xsl:namespace name=""><xsl:value-of select="@prefix"/></xsl:namespace>

In 1.0 there is no direct way of doing this. The nearest equivalent is:

<xsl:variable name="dummy">
  <xsl:element name="e" namespace="{@prefix}"/>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:copy select="xx:node-set($dummy)/*/namespace::*[.=@prefix]"/>

This creates a dummy element in the required namespace, and then copies
the required namespace node to the result tree.

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Christian Sell
> Sent: 03 October 2003 15:28
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] problem - generating XML schema via XSLT
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to generate an XML schema file from an XML input 
> document, 
> and encounter a somewhat esoteric problem. I am using Xalan 
> 2.5.1. The 
> input document is in essence a simplified version of the 
> schema. Heres 
> an example:
> 
> the input:
> 
> <library prefix="test">
>      <element name="dosome"/>
> </library>
> 
> should become:
> 
> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="..." xmlns="test" targetNamespace="test">
>      <xs:element name=dosome type="ElementType"/>
> 
>      <... type declaration ..>
> </xs:schema>
> 
> So far all goes well, with the exception of the "xmlns" 
> attribute in the 
> output "xs:schema" element, which should hold the value of 
> the "prefix" 
> attribute from the "library" input element. I am trying to 
> achieve this 
> with the following literal result element inside the template that 
> matches the library element:
> 
> <xs:schema xmlns="{@prefix}" targetNamespace="{@prefix}">
>    ...
> </xs:schema>
> 
> (XML schema requires both the xmlns and the targetNamespace 
> attributes 
> to hold the same value). However, the result I get is:
> 
> <xs:schema xmlns="{@prefix}" targetNamespace="test">
> 
> Note that the value expression was resolved for the targetNamespace 
> attribute, but not for the xmlns attribute.
> 
> Is this an error with Xalan, or am I missing something? Does 
> anyone have 
> a suggestion how to achieve the desired result?
> 
> TIA,
> Christian
> 
> 
> 
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