Hugh wrote:
I am wanting to write stylesheets that can be used by xml files from a
variety of sources
I have trouble because the name space is not always specified by the
supplier. I would like to be able to match on an element of
known local
name, but from a, possibly undefined namespace.
...
Sample XSL
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:element name="myNewRoot">
<xsl:for-each select=".//CgPoints">
<xsl:element name="SomeOtherThing">
<xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="CgPoints">
<xsl:element name="myFirstLevelChild">
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
The match pattern is relatively easy; do
<xsl:template match="*[local-name() = 'CgPoints']">
I'm not sure what you want to do for namespaces in the output...
If you don't need a namespace, you can leave your stylesheet as-is.
If you want to copy the namespace of the input XML, you can do
something like
<xsl:template match="*[local-name() = 'CgPoints']">
<xsl:element name="myFirstLevelChild"
namespace="{namespace-uri()}" />
</xsl:template>
This will copy the namespace-uri from CgPoints in the input XML.
Hopefully you're not picky about what namespace prefix is used. :-)
Lars
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