Re: [xsl] Trouble with namespaces and running identity transform on XHTML

[Kevin Jones <kjones@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 22:22, James J. Ramsey wrote:
>
> except in the output, that prefixes elements with
> "h:", which I do *not* want.
>

Sorry, I misunderstood the request. Not just into the XHTML 
namespace but empty prefix as well. This works for me on 
Sablotron and Saxon but see the note below on your question.

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>

<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="namespace-uri()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


> Anyway, what I'm not sure of is whether the XSLT spec
> guarantees that
>
> <xsl:element name="NCName"> <!-- No prefix in NCName
> -->
>  <!-- Content of NCName . . . -->
> </xsl:element>
>
> will result in an element with the unprefixed name
> NCName in the default namespace, or if it's just that
> XSLT processors happen to serialize that as "<NCName>
> . . . </NCName>".
>

In short, I don't think there are any guarantees about this 
particularly across different processors, although a general 
goal of some processor writers will have been to make the output 
as 'nice' as possible, i.e. minimise namespace declarations and 
try and preserve prefixes.

Kev.



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