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Re: [xsl] Unwanted namespace prefix _0

2013-12-23 10:31:00
At 2013-12-23 08:16 -0800, Martin Holmes wrote:
Hi all,

I'm doing an identity transform with Saxon 9.5.1.2 (HE, PE and EE all do the same) on a TEI file with embedded examples in the Examples namespace:

<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"; version="5.0">
[...]
<div>
<egXML xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples"; valid="true">
  For more information, consult the
  <ref target="mol:linking#linking_graphics"> guide to
  linking graphic content</ref>.</egXML>
</div>
[...]
</TEI>

In the output, Saxon generates unwanted namespace prefixes, like this:

<_0:egXML xmlns:_0="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/Examples"; valid="true">
  For more information, consult the
  <_0:ref target="mol:linking#linking_graphics"> guide to
  linking graphic content</_0:ref>.</_0:egXML>

This is even though I have exclude-result-prefixes="#all", and it happens whether or not I define a prefix in the root stylesheet element for the Examples namespace.

What am I missing?

That exclude-result-prefixes= has no impact on namespaces in input trees, it only prunes the stylesheet tree literal result elements of unwanted namespaces (though the actual prohibition typically happens during serialization, conceptually it is as if the namespaces were pruned from the stylesheet tree).

How would I get output that looks exactly like the input?

Have you considered reconstituting each element explicitly with no prefix?

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

Though I could imagine it has no effect since it will build an exact replica of the result tree as a copy. If you know that what you want is in the default namespace you could try:

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

But, again, it will likely build the exact result tree.

I'm making these suggestions just in case Saxon looks to the result tree creation for a hint regarding serialization.

The specification doesn't provide such control over serialization, so Saxon is within its rights to do what it wants. You could look in the Saxon documentation for a private extension that would govern the rules.

I hope this helps.

Happy holidays to list readers!

. . . . . . . . Ken

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