Re: Adding namespaces to output

Hi Felix,

On Monday 23 Dec 2002 3:09 pm, hauser felix wrote:

> Question: Do you know how to add a prefixed namespace
> ('xmlns:p="URI"', where URI is not known in advance)
> to an output element ('<a>...</a>') WITHOUT producing
> an additional dummy-Attribute
> ('p:dummy-for-xmlns=""')? One Solution would be to
> transform the output document again and just remove
> the dummy-Attribute, but this doesn't seem to be very
> ellegant.

You can get the same effect by using a temporary tree and then copying the 
namespace out of it.

<xsl:variable name="dummy">
	<xsl:element name="p:a" namespace="something"/>
</xsl:variable>

<a>
	<xsl:copy-of select="$dummy/*/namespace::*[1]"/>
</a>

You will need to use your processors nodeset function to access $dummy in the 
copy-of. There may be a minor portability issue here in that a processor is 
not required to respect your choice of prefix, i.e. the 'p' may be changed to 
something else, although that is unlikely unless you have used 'p' for 
something else. It works ok with Saxon.

Kev.



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