XSLT: problem with the xmlns in target

[Rosa Mª Gómez Flores]

Hallo!

I don't understand exactly what is the 'xmlns' attribute, nor why it have
problems with the xmlns attribute of the sylesheet, but I need it in
my output XML file. Could anybody tell me how to transform this input:

<ROOT-ELEMENT>
<SOHN>...</SOHN>
</ROOT-ELEMENT>

in this output:

<ROOT-ELEMENT xmlns="http://www.whatever">
<SOHN>...</SOHN>
</ROOT-ELEMENT>

Thanks a lot of,

Rgf

[Scott M.]

<ROOT-ELEMENT>
<xsl:attribute name="xmlns">http://www.whatever.com</xsl:attribute>
</ROOT-ELEMENT>

The xmlns attribute is how you associate an xml tag with an xml namespace.
Some namespaces are pre-defined by the w3c (World Wide Web Consortium) and
MUST be referenced correctly or your xml parser won't know what the special
tags in that namespace mean.

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[Oleg Tkachenko]

Scott M. wrote:

> <ROOT-ELEMENT>
> <xsl:attribute name="xmlns">http://www.whatever.com</xsl:attribute>
> </ROOT-ELEMENT>

This won't work. xmlns (namespace declaration) is not treated as
attribute in XPath/XSLT data model, so one cannot create namespace
declaration using xsl:attribute instruction, see
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#creating-attributes

The solution is to use xsl:element instruction to create new elements in
the namespace.
--
Oleg Tkachenko
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
Multiconn Technologies, Israel

[Marrow]

Hi,

Try an identity transform with a default output namespace, something like...

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns="http://www.whatever">
<xsl:output method="xml"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:element name="{name()}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@* | comment() | text() | processing-instruction()">
<xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Hope this helps
Marrow
http://www.marrowsoft.com - home of Xselerator (XSLT IDE and debugger)
http://www.topxml.com/Xselerator

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