[This doesn't appear to have been raised here or elsewhere; a search for
combinations of ooxml, wordml, namespace returns zero hits. If it has
been answered online somewhere, I'd be grateful for a pointer.]
WordML and OOXML files (Word saved-as-XML from vv2003-2008) contain some
different namespace declarations for the same prefix (specifically w:
but a few others).
On the surface, this appears to mean that an XSLT file written to
process WordML files' w:* elements cannot be used to process OOXML
files' w:* elements -- two parallel versions are needed, one with the
WordML w: namespace and one with the OOXML w: namespace.
As the only document body elements in either case that I will need to
handle are identified by named styles, I would prefer to be able to
reuse the bulk of the templates by inclusion or importation. The
documents come from mixed sources, and I'd prefer not to have to ask the
authors to update their version of Word :-)
I tested this by creating two "driver" XSLT files, one implementing the
WordML namespace declarations and one the OOXML ones; with both files
having a single xsl:import or xsl:include (tested both ways) calling my
file of templates which itself declared no namespaces except XSL.
Both Saxon and xalan throw an error, saying that the namespace w: was
undeclared in all cases.
This makes it appear that namespaces cannot be inherited from an outer
XSLT file to an included or imported one; in effect that the omission of
namespace declarations on the included/imported xsl:stylesheet element
nullifies all outer namespace declarations.
Is this correct, or have I missed something?
///Peter
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