XSLT:XML->XML:Auto-Add undesirable xmlns declaraction ..... please help

[Yi Meng]

Hi,

I am trying to do an xml to xml transformation using xslt, my source xml is fully qualified while my desired result xml is not. The problem is as follows,

source xml

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<a:root xmlns:a="http://some.namespace.com/">
<a:b>bbbb</a:b>
</a:root>
   

xslt

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:a="http://some.namespace.com/">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" omit-xml-declaration="no" standalone="no" 
indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<b>
<xsl:value-of select="/a:root/a:b"/>
</b>
</xsl:template>
 
</xsl:stylesheet>   

and result xml

 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
<b xmlns:a="http://some.namespace.com/">bbbb

</b>   

what i really hate is the xmlns:a="http://some.namespace.com/" part in the result xml file... i don't want that....can anyone help???

Thank you very much.
[ November 07, 2006: Message edited by: Yi Meng ]

[Paul Clapham]

This isn't actually a problem, you know. The namespace declaration may be taking up space, but it doesn't change the meaning of the XML document in any way.

[Yi Meng]

Originally posted by Paul Clapham:
This isn't actually a problem, you know. The namespace declaration may be taking up space, but it doesn't change the meaning of the XML document in any way.

Thank you, I generally agree with you, but...

My client is using a dtd and it gives a complaint, sth like Attribute "xmlns:a" must be declared for element type "b"

I don't want to blame their dtd and instead i'd like to omit that xmlns declaraction if possible in xslt... otherwise, i will basically have to do a text edit...

[Paul Clapham]

Ah, working around other people's buggy software (and identifying a namespace declaration as an attribute is definitely a bug). I took a quick look in the XSLT FAQ and found this in the "Namespaces" section:

http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N5536.html#d6682e1543

[Yi Meng]

Originally posted by Paul Clapham:
Ah, working around other people's buggy software (and identifying a namespace declaration as an attribute is definitely a bug). I took a quick look in the XSLT FAQ and found this in the "Namespaces" section:

http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N5536.html#d6682e1543

Thank you very much, Paul. That is really useful...


The solution is to modify the xslt to....just for those concerned...

   
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet exclude-result-prefixes="a" version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:a="http://some.namespace.com/">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" 
encoding="utf-8" omit-xml-declaration="no" standalone="no" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<b>
<xsl:value-of select="/a:root/a:b"/>
</b>
</xsl:template>
 </xsl:stylesheet>
    

[ November 08, 2006: Message edited by: Yi Meng ]