Namespace Issues

Article:
Template Languages in XSLT

Subject: Namespace Issues

Date: 2003-12-10 10:26:52

From: John Timm

I want the output of the transform to be fully-compliant XHTML. The only way to do this seems to be to make the default namespace of the transform that of XHTML strict. The <xsl:element> method of copying elements from the source tree to the result tree doesn't preserve the default namespace of the template document even if I have a root element of:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:my="http://xml.com/my-template-language" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

I can I do this without losing the genericity of the transform (output agnostic).

Thanks,

JT

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2005-11-30 00:56:53 tkk

A bit late, but I recently had the same issue as John Timm in creating an identity transform XSLT - to preserve the namespace of the original document elements in the output document you need to add a "namespace" attribute to your <xsl:element>, eg instead of:
<xsl:element name="{name()}">
use:

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

Hope that helps someone out there!

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