RE: Adding namespace to an XML through XSL

Thanks a lot Lars.  That seems to have done the trick.
 I have been having a real tough with incorporating
the namespace but this worked beautifully!  Really
appreciate it.  

Kanthi

--- Lars Huttar <lars_huttar@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> xsl:copy-of copies nodes in the source tree to
> equivalent
> nodes in the result tree, with the same name and
> namespace
> (and the serializer will add declarations such as
> xmlns="" to make
> sure that Element1 is still in no namespace, just as
> it was in
> the source tree).
> 
> In order to change the namespace during the
> transform, you
> can use an identity transform, modified to change
> the namespace
> of each element. E.g.:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>   <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0"
> encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="*" priority="3">
>     <xsl:element name="{local-name()}"
> namespace="Something">
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
>     </xsl:element>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
>     <xsl:copy>
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>     </xsl:copy>
>   </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> HTH,
> Lars
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Kanthi
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 10:06 AM
> > To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:  Adding namespace to an XML through
> XSL
> > 
> > 
> > Hi there - 
> > 
> > I am having problems adding a namespace using an
> xsl
> > to an xml with no namespaces.  
> > 
> > My sample xml looks like this
> > <MainElement>
> >   <Element1>
> >    <Element2>
> >      <Element3> 
> >       :
> >       :
> >      </Element3>
> >    </Element2>
> >   </Element1>
> > </MainElement>
> > 
> > And I want to add a namespace to the <MainElement
> > xmlns="Something"> without any prefix.
> > 
> > I am doing the following in my xsl
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> > xmlns="Something">
> > <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0"
> > encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"
> > omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
> > 
> > <xsl:template match="MainElement">
> > <MainElement xmlns="Something">
> >   <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
> > </MainElement>	
> > </xsl:template>
> > 
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> > 
> > But the problem is that <Element1> looks like this
> > <Element1 xmlns="">
> > 
> > Any ideas on how to get round this?  I am not
> exactly
> > sure how to use "xsl:namespace-alias" for this or
> > whether that will help?
> > 
> >  
> > Thanks
> > Kanthi
> > 
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