Hi,
I'm new to the list and also somewhat of an XSLT neophyte, so please
bear with me as I lay out a question you no doubt have encountered before...
I am developing a simple content management system for my own needs. I
have chosen to use XHTML for data storage, and I use XSLT to grab the
body of the document and insert it into the page, adding other stuff
using PHP. I'm using PHP's integrated XSLT processing extension.
--- My XHTML source: ---
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>The Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>A Heading.</h1>
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
</p>
</body>
</html>
------------------------
--- My XSL stylesheet: ---
<xsl:stylesheet version = '1.0'
xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'
xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<xsl:output method="xhtml"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:copy-of select="xhtml:html/xhtml:body/*"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
--------------------------
The problem (as you can probably guess by now) is that the XSLT
processor is outputting XML namespace attributes for each element, like
this:
--- Output 1: ---
<h1 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>A Heading.</h1>
<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
</p>
-----------------
I am aware of the fact that using copy-of _will_ copy the implicit
namespace nodes. I also am aware of the fact that
exclude-result-prefixes won't work in this case.
What I would like to know is what would be the most elegant solution to
this problem? I have come up with one potential candidate:
If I modify the stylesheet's copy-of element's select attribute to
"xhtml:html/xhtml:body" I will get the following output:
--- Output 2: ---
<body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<h1>A Heading.</h1>
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
</p>
</body>
-----------------
Using PHP it would be rather trivial to remove the body tag, effectively
solving my problem.
I guess I am just wondering if anyone has a better solution. My desired
end result is the source of Output 1 with the xmlns attributes removed.
Sincerely,
Max Romantschuk
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Max Romantschuk
http://max.nma.fi/