Re: Re: Can one _generate_ namespace nodes?

--- Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >Can you provide a *small* example, please?
> 
> Smallest would be a conceptual sketch rather than an example.
> 
> Let's say we want to insert <xsl:text>foo</xsl:text> into the middle
> of 
> our output document. One approach is to code it using  a "dummy" 
> namespace, and translate that on output to the correct namespace::
>         <xsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="newxsl" 
> result-prefix="xsl"/>
>         ...
>         <newxsl:text>foo</newxsl:text>
> and have XSLT automatically translate the dummy namespace into the
> "real" 
> xsl namespace. I've tended to prefer this approach for clarity
> reasons.
> 
> The downside of the aliasing solution is that it may produce more
> verbose 
> output. Some XSLT processors -- Xalan in particular -- keep the
> original 
> prefix and just change the namespace binding. This is actually nice
> in 
> some ways, since it means you can see which names were generated by
> the
> 
> aliasing mechanism. But when you combine that with a serializer which
> 
> generates namespace declarations at the point where it discovers they
> were 
> used without having been explicitly declared, that means the output 
> becomes
>         <newxsl:text 
> xmlns:newxsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">foo</newxsl:text>
> .... and that namespace declaration occurs on every one of these
> generated 
> <newxsl:text/> elements.


In case if we have:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 xmlns:newxsl="http://dymmy/Transform"
 exclude-result-prefixes="xsl">  
  
  <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>  
  
  <xsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="newxsl" 
                       result-prefix="xsl"/>  
  
  <xsl:template match="/">    
    
    <newxsl:stylesheet version="1.0">       
      <newxsl:text>foo</newxsl:text>     
    </newxsl:stylesheet>  
  
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

and the XSLT processor (e.g. Xalan) keeps the new prefix and only
changes its namespace-uri, then the serialiser will have to generate
the correct namespace declaration for newxsl:stylesheet. Thus the
required namespace declaration will be at the highest place possible in
the hierarchy.

The result from the above transformation must be:

<newxsl:stylesheet xmlns:newxsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
 version="1.0">
   <newxsl:text>foo</newxsl:text>
</newxsl:stylesheet>


Isn't this a solution to the problem?






=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL

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