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RE: Name Spaces in Selects and xsl:element

2005-05-05 11:08:43
How about in an identity transformation, how do you preserve the
original name of an element, but add a namespace to it?

You mean original local name, I assume (the name constists of local name
plus namespace).

Use

<xsl:element name="{local-name()}" namespace="new-namespace">

in place of <xsl:copy>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/



On 5/5/05, David Carlisle <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:

XPath considers the namespace to be an integral part of the name
so "field in namespace1" is no more related to "field in namespace2"
than it is to "lksfhaskhfashfd in namespace 1".

There are good reasons for this: the documentred reason for 
introducing
the whole namespace complication is so that your "p" element is
completely different from my "p" element. So to say you 
want to match on
eny element called p whatever namespace it is in is like 
saying you want
to match on any element whose name begins with W. You can do both of
those, but not with the short syntax reserved for more resonable
selections.

*[starts-with(name(),'W')]
and
*[local-name()='field']

Actually sufficient numbers of peopel wantto be bad that 
XPath2 offers a
*:field but you probably are not using XPath2 (unless you are
usingsaxon8) XSLT2/XPath2 are still in draft form.

David


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