Re: [xsl] Identity transform (case conversion)

[George Cristian Bina <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mukul,

The XML namespace is
http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace
------------------^^^
and not
http://www.w3.org/xml/1998/namespace
------------------^^^
This should answer your first question.

Best Regards,
George
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Mukul Gandhi wrote:
> Thanks Mike for the clarification. I have 2 more questions..
>
> 1st question:
>
> You earlier gave suggestion, that comparing the namespace-uri()
> instead of name() will make the stylesheet (George's code) compatible
> with both Saxon and MSXML. (for supressing the namespace
> xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/xml/1998/namespace"; in output)
>
> The relevant portion of code is (please see the code that George posted):
>
> <xsl:for-each select="current()//namespace::*[not(.=$currentNamepsace)
> and not(name()='xml')]">
>     <xsl:attribute name="{translate(name(), $small,
> $caps)}:dummy{position()}" namespace="{translate(., $small,
> $caps)}"></xsl:attribute>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> I changed this to:
>
> <xsl:for-each 
> select="current()//namespace::*[not(starts-with(.,'http://www.w3.org'))]">
>    <xsl:attribute name="{translate(name(), $small,
> $caps)}:dummy{position()}" namespace="{translate(., $small,
> $caps)}"></xsl:attribute>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> This works..
>
> But following doesn't work (the namespace
> http://www.w3.org/xml/1998/namespace is getting generated in the
> output):
>
> <xsl:for-each select="current()//namespace::*[not(. =
> 'http://www.w3.org/xml/1998/namespace')]">
>
> (Please note the namespace uri comparison I am doing). What is wrong
> with the string comparison here?
>
> I am using Saxon 8.7.3.
>
> 2nd question:
>
> Why at all the namespace, http://www.w3.org/xml/1998/namespace is part
> of node-set namespace::*. I am not sure, but does it relate to the XML
> Namespaces spec? (you hinted this in your previous answers)
>
> Regards,
> Mukul
>
> On 7/8/06, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Can you please clarify whether this is a bug with Xalan-J 2.7.0:
> > >
> > > This instruction is not generating the namespaces in the
> > > output <xsl:copy-of select="current()//namespace::*" />
> > >
> >
> > It looks like a non-conformance to me: Erratum E25 at
> > http://www.w3.org/1999/11/REC-xslt-19991116-errata/ specifies the 
> > behaviour
> > of xsl:copy and xsl:copy-of when applied to namespace nodes.
> >
> > Michael Kay
> > http://www.saxonica.com/