If an element in the result tree is in the XHTML namespace, that's because you
put it there, and the way to get rid of the namespace declaration is to STOP
putting it there.
The way you put it there depends on how you created the element. The three ways
of creating an element are essentially
(a) xsl:element
(b) xsl:copy/copy-of
(c) literal result elements
With xsl:element, the new element goes in the namespace selected in the
namespace attribute (as you indicate).
With xsl:copy/copy-of, it retains the namespace it had in the source document
With literal result elements, it retains the namespace that the LRE has in the
stylesheet.
If you want to change the namespace of an element in the source document, you
can't use xsl:copy/copy-of, you need to use xsl:element.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
On 22 Sep 2021, at 14:43, Terry Ofner tdofner(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
I am processing html exported from InDesign documents. As such, Every html
document comes with the standard doctype and namespace declarations:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>">
In the past, I have skirted the namespace tangle by manually removing the
doctype and replacing <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
<http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>”> with an element name that the Oxygen xslt
engine would not quibble about, such as <mybook>. Since I have too many
documents to transform, I have left the doctype and html/namespace in place
and modified the stylesheet namespace declarations like this:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform
<http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform>"
version="3.0"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>"
xpath-default-namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
<http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>"
xmlns:map="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/map
<http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/map>"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema>"
xmlns:saxon="http://saxon.sf.net/ <http://saxon.sf.net/>"
exclude-result-prefixes="xs map #default saxon">
Well and good. I can address the html elements directly in my stylesheet.
However, the namespace http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
<http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml> appears in the root level element of all
output documents:
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>"
class="apE">
<p class="subhead_ap_topic">2.2 Yada Yada</p>
<p class="subhead_ap_h2">Yuda</p>
<p class="body_first">NNNN</p>
<p class="subhead_ap_h4">MMMM</p>
<p class="body_text">PPPP</p>
</div>
When I remove the namespace at the root level using <xsl:element name=“div”
namespace="">, the http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
<http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml> namespace appears on all child elements:
<div class="apE">
<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>"
class="subhead_ap_topic">2.2 Yada Yada</p>
<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>"
class="subhead_ap_h2">Yuda</p>
<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>"
class="body_first">NNNN</p>
<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>"
class="subhead_ap_h4">MMMM</p>
<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>"
class="body_text">PPPP</p>
</div>
My question: Is it possible to remove all namespaces from my result
documents—short of selecting * and rebuilding all elements using <xsl:element
namespace=“”>? These namespace declarations don’t hamper the display of the
resulting documents. However, text is text and the extra load, over pages and
pages of such output can’t but add time to rendering pages. Of course, having
one namespace declaration at the root level is preferable to having all child
elements carrying a ns.
Any help in this would be appreciated.
Terry
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