Thanks first to Andrew and Michael for responding.
In the interest of completion, here's the stylesheet I ended up using.
The root node's attributes are copied as attributes and not converted to
elements.
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
version="2.0">
<xsl:template match="/*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*" >
<xsl:element name="{name()}">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*" >
<xsl:element name="{name()}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*" />
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Yes it seems obvious now that converting from attributes to elements
will stop the document from complying with the original schema, so
copying that to the result is not really sensible. However my
stylesheet does copy the root node's attributes as attributes and I
remove the schema manually later.
Regards,
Richard.
PS
The result is as follows (with indentation added manually afterwards):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<slots xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="generic_snmp_slots.xsd">
<slot>
<name>RevMajor</name>
<use>yes</use>
<description>The Major Revision level.</description>
</slot>
</slots>
-----Original Message-----
From: Kerry, Richard
Sent: 15 November 2007 09:59
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Namespace match error. XSL to convert
attribute-centric to element-centric.
I'm trying to convert an xml document from attribute-centric to
element-centric using the following stylesheet.
(This is ConvertToElements2.xsl referred to below)
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
version="2.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*" >
<xsl:element name="{name()}">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*" >
<xsl:element name="{name()}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*" />
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
If I apply it to the following data :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<slots xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="generic_snmp_slots.xsd">
<slot name="RevMajor" use="yes" description="The Major Revision
level."/>
</slots>
I get an error as follows (this is using Saxon, on Windows XP):
(some lines of batchfile removed)
C:\Projects\Drivers\Mib>set
CLASSPATH=3DC:/Downloads/Saxon/saxonb8-9j/saxon8.jar
C:\Projects\Drivers\Mib>java net.sf.saxon.Transform Slots4.xml
C:/Projects/Tools_RK/Xsl/ConvertToElements2.xsl
outfile=3DSlots4_Elements.xml
Error at xsl:element on line 12 of
file:/C:/Projects/Tools_RK/Xsl/ConvertToElements2.xsl:
XTDE0830: Undeclared prefix in element name: xsi Transformation
failed: Run-time errors were reported
I take it this error is due to the "xsi:" namespace of the
"xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation" attribute of my source data.
How can I handle this ?
I thought matching "*" would match everything. Do I need to tell it to
ignore namespaces ? Or match namespaces somehow ?
Or is this an XML error (wrong name for the schema attribute perhaps)
that is thus nothing to do with XSL ?
Uncertainly,
Richard.
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