RE: generate XHTML header without causing xmlns attrib

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Subject: RE: generate XHTML header without causing xmlns attributes in e.g. <table>?
From: Chris Loschen <loschen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:20:39 -0400

I'm also using xalan-j, and I've used this sort of code to avoid the empty namespace declaration:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0" xmlns:oeb="http://openebook.org/namespaces/oeb-document/1.0/" exclude-result-prefixes="oeb"> ... <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:element name="html" xmlns="http://openebook.org/namespaces/oeb-document/1.0/"> ... </xsl:template>

...

<xsl:template match="LINK"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="@TYPE='URL'"> <a xmlns="http://openebook.org/namespaces/oeb-document/1.0/"> <xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="@DEST"/></xsl:attribute> <xsl:apply-templates /> </a> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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As I understand it, because you've named the XHTML namespace as the null-prefix namespace, and you've assigned the elements in your stylesheet to that namespace (by not putting a prefix on them or explicitly assigning them to something), XSLT is concluding that the output elements belong to that null-prefix namespace. I'm working around that by explicitly assigning them to the namespace that I'm excluding from my results. I still use the null-prefix namespace declaration in my output by declaring it in the html element above. You'd just need to replace my uses of oeb with your uses of XHTML.

I've had good results with this -- hope it helps!

At 09:24 AM 10/17/03, you wrote:

> > But the resulting table tag in XHTML is:
> > <table xmlns="" class="parameters" cellspacing="0"
> > cellpadding="3" border="1">
> >   <thead>
> >     <tr>
> >        ...
> >
> This code looks perfectly correct to me.
>
> This means either:
> * I haven't spotted your error, or
> * There is something odd in a part of the stylesheet you
> haven't shown us, or
> * you are using a buggy XSLT processor (unlikely if you are
> using one of the widely-used ones, but I don't think you told
> us which one it was).
>
> The next thing I would do is to run it against a different
> processor and see if the results are the same.
>
Ahh, Michael,
You were correct in assuming it was an odd behaviour by the XSLT processor.
I've used Xalan-J, up till now...

Here is the <table> tags from Xalan-j and MSXML3 processors
Xalan-J:
<table class="querydef" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" border="1">
<table xmlns="" class="parameters" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" border="1">
MSXML3:
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" class="querydef">
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" class="parameters">
Hmm - Looks like Xalan-J misinterprets something, the output in MSXML3 is as I would expect it to be.

However, in MSXML3 I have another unrelated problem.

Even though I specify <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" doctype-system="DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" />
The character encoding line in the XHTML generated by MSXML is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
As opposed to:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
In the output from Xalan-J (which is what I expected it to be).
Is there a way to force MSXML to write ISO-8859-1 as character encoding instead - if so, I can use MSXML instead of Xalan-J?

Flemming

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--Chris

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RE: generate XHTML header without causing xmlns attributes in e.g. <table>?, (continued) Wendell Piez - Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:09:36 -0400 (EDT) Flemming Jønsson - Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:38:52 -0400 (EDT) Emmanuil Batsis (Manos) - Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:49:46 -0400 (EDT) Flemming Jønsson - Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:25:32 -0400 (EDT) Chris Loschen - Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:21:26 -0400 (EDT) <=

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