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Re: preserving prefix names while replacing

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• Subject: Re: preserving prefix names while replacing
• From: richard@i... (Richard Tobin)
• Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:26:02 +0100 (BST)
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• In-reply-to: <A6A2706C1F47D24F92D56A457CDE62E50266B96B@r...>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

In article <A6A2706C1F47D24F92D56A457CDE62E50266B96B@r...> you write:

>Currently I have:
>
><xsl:template match="soapenv:Body">
>  <soapenv:Body Id="MsgBody">
>...
>
>The problem with this is that it doesn't preserve the original
>document's prefix name, which is what I want to do as this is part of an
>override xsl for an identity transform.

Instead of using a literal result element, copy the original:

 <xsl:template match="soapenv:Body">
   <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:attribute name="id">MsgBody</xsl:attribute>
     ...
   </xsl:copy>
   ...

This isn't guaranteed to preserve the prefix, but will in many XSLT
implementations.

-- Richard

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