If you create elements in the correct namespace, the namespace declarations
will take care of themselves. Your problem is that you want the <html>
element to be in no namespace, but you have generated it in the XHTML
namespace. This appears to be because you generated it by copying an element
from the source document. <xsl:copy-of> will always copy the expanded name
of an element unchanged from the source to the result; if you want to rename
the element you need to use <xsl:element>.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: David J Birnbaum [mailto:djbpitt+xml(_at_)pitt(_dot_)edu]
Sent: 29 July 2007 23:11
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] getting rid of namespaces
Dear XSL List,
I'm trying to get rid of a pesky namespace declaration, and
I've tried to follow the rules (as I ... er ... understand
them), but without success. Can someone please advise me on
where my blind spot lies?
Here's a sample XML document instance:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
<p>A paragraph in no namespace</p>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<head>
<title>Title in html namespace</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>A paragraph in the html namespace</p>
</body>
</html>
</root>
Here's the XSLT:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; version="2.0"
exclude-result-prefixes="#all">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test of removing namespaces</title>
</head>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="p">
<p>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</p>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="html:html/html:body/html:*">
<xsl:copy-of select="." copy-namespaces="no"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="html:html/html:head"/> </xsl:stylesheet>
I specify exclude-result-prefixes="#all" on the
<xsl:stylesheet> node and I specify copy-namespaces="no" on
the <xsl:copy-of> instruction that copies all elements in the
body the html document that is embedded in my XML source. The
first of these strategies makes the namespace declaration on
the paragraph in no namespace go away (so far, so good), but
the second does not suppress the unwanted namespace
declaration on the embedded <html:p>. Here's the output of a
Saxon 8.9.0.4J transformation (I've edited out some unwanted
white space):
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8">
<title>Test of removing namespaces</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>A paragraph in no namespace</p>
<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>A paragraph
in the html
namespace</p>
</body>
</html>
What should I be doing to get rid of the xhtml namespace declaration?
Thanks!
Best,
David
djbpitt+xml(_at_)pitt(_dot_)edu
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