I've tried, I really have, but I can't come up with a solution to this.
Given some document with unknown elements (i.e., I can't enumerate the
elements inside the stylesheet for special processing) in a null namespace:
<random>
<elements baz="foo">qux</elements>
</random>
Can I use XSLT to process this document and move it into a namespace:
<w:random xmlns:w="http://wibble.com/ns";>
<w:elements baz="foo">qux</elements>
</w:random>
Thanks for reading!
the namespace is part of the element name, so as far as XSLT is
concerned this is like saying
Given some document with unknown elements (i.e., I can't enumerate the
elements inside the stylesheet for special processing) in a null namespace:
Can I use XSLT to process this document and prefix every element name
with "A"?
You code them pretty much the same way.
To do the first:
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:element name="concat('A',local-name())">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
To do the second, you do
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:element name="local-name()" namespace="http://wibble.com/ns";>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
which will produce
<random xmlns="http://wibble.com/ns";>
If you need to specify the prefix you need a combination of both:
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:element name="concat('w:',local-name())" namespace="http://wibble.com/ns";>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
In that case if your stylesheet element already has
xmlns:w="http://wibble.com/ns";
so that the w: prefix is in scope then you could simplify the last to
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:element name="concat('w:',local-name())">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
as xsl:element will use the right namespace for the w: prefix in that
case.
David
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