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 Hi Phillip,
> My problem is that the xhtml to fo conversion does not work unless
> the html element appears as:
>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> </html>
In other words, the XHTML to XSL-FO conversion requires that the html
element (and other elements, I imagine) are in the XHTML namespace.
They need to be in the XHTML namespace because that's what the
transformation uses to identify elements that it knows how to convert.
> Unfortunately, my xhtml file's html element(after transformation)
> is:
>
> <html xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> </html>
In other words, you're creating an html element in *no namespace*
(there's no default namespace declaration, so elements without a
prefix are in no namespace). You happen to have the XHTML namespace
associated with the prefix 'html' but I guess there's nothing in your
stylesheet that uses the prefix 'html' so the namespace declaration
doesn't do much.
To create an html element with no prefix and in the XHTML namespace,
you need to declare the XHTML namespace as the default namespace
within your stylesheet:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Note that placing the default namespace declaration on the
xsl:stylesheet element means that its scope is the entire stylesheet
-- any literal result element that doesn't have a prefix will be
placed in the XHTML namespace. That's what you want to happen.
Paul Brown's suggestion of:
<xsl:template match="/">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
</html>
</xsl:template>
will place the html element in the XHTML namespace, and it will place
any literal result element actually inside that html element *in the
stylesheet* in the correct namespace. However, if you had something
like:
<xsl:template match="/">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/*">
<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</xsl:template>
then the head and body elements would again be in no namespace, since
there is no default namespace declaration that covers them.
Cheers,
Jeni
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Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/
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