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Re: Name Spaces in Selects and xsl:element

2005-05-05 09:26:45
Simple question:
If you element is named fn:field, and you do an apply templates of
select="fn:field", does your match have to be "fn:field", or does it
work fine with "field", and if not, is there a way to set up a match
for field for all namespaces?  (maybe that was all ready answered,
reviewing this thread)

On 5/5/05, Karl Stubsjoen <kstubs(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
omit-result-prefixes="ms"
Did you mean exclude-result-prefixes?

exclude-result-prefixes is working, except for variables/elements that
are being evaluated with xxx:nod-set().  I have a template rule which
sorts data, and creates a number attribute from a date, the result
might look something like this:

<fn:members>
 <fn:member>
     <field name="first_name">Suzie</field>
     <field name="dob" num_dtm="19990604"/>1999-06-04</field>
 </fn:member>
 <fn:member>
     <field name="first_name">Bob</field>
     <field name="dob" num_dtm="20010304"/>2001-03-04</field>
 </fn:member>
</fn:members>

Contained in the variable "sorted_members".  The xml result of this is
not as "pretty" as I'd like it, all though better for sure; it removed
my other namespaces, but the xmlns definition for "fn" lingers.

Any ideas on that?

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

So, given the sample data, how would one
select all elements who's namespace is "fn"?

select="//fn:*"

does just what you say 9so long as fn prefix is bound to a namespace in
your stylesheet (the source doesn't have to use the same prefix)

But that probably isn't what you want to do, as selecting all elements
in a single node set isn't usually useful. In this case you'd get fn:A
and all the fn:B's

if you justuse a normal apply-templates then you can make all elements
be discarded
<xsl:template match="*"/>
and then have more specific templates to do something with fn elements,
eg
<xsl:template match="fn:*">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

will produce the result that you wanted.

 Another question, about xsl:element.  When I use this to create
 elements, the elements never get the appended xmlns attribute added.

note that namespace declarations (xmlns....) are not attributes to
XPath/XSLT (even though they use a similar syntax)


<NewElement xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt">
How can this be avoided without using the xsl:element command?

Th ms namespace prefix must be in scope in your stylesheet.
If you need it declared but don't need it in the result add
omit-result-prefixes="ms"
to your xsl:stylesheet element.

David

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