Re: Doctype and namespaces in source/generated files

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Subject: Re: Doctype and namespaces in source/generated files
From: Mayo <mayo@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:52:56 -0700

However, creating the html root as a literal result element (or via xsl:element), used in combination with namespace declarations and exclude-result-prefixes on the stylesheet element, will give you a certain control over the namespace declarations to be added/omitted. (Don't know about the rest of you over here, but simply copying the root in this case seems to be asking for trouble --or at least, seems to complicate things unnecessarily...)

I've noticed this with few other tests I did, and fised it accordingly as suggested by Ken Holman few emails back.

(I'm not really concerted with removing them, as they do no
harm, but it would certainly be cleaner. I'm more concerned about
adding new ones in.)
Can you be a bit more specific about this? Do you mean that you introduce new namespaces in the transform that are declared in none of the source documents?

Again, if you create the root as a literal result element, you can add custom namespace declarations to it by defining them on xsl:stylesheet (and not adding their respective prefixes to the list in the exclude-result-prefixes attribute).

The was I had my stylesheet working was that I introduces namespaces that I wanted to process in the source html document (and hence could not introduce xhtml one, as it would strip all the tags out.

And becaused I used to use copy, the xhtml namespace would not be introduces in the output (only my custom one was preserved - copied from the source).

With rewriting the stylesheet as suggested and introducing doctype, the xhtml xmlns is now in the output document.

I'm attaching my current version below, just so it's easier to understand. Anyway, thanks everyone for their help, I've got it almost all working.

Thanks,
Mayo

Source: (not including doctype) <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:tpl="tpl:namespace" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <title>xslt test</title> </head>

    <body>
        <p>xsl test1: <tpl:var/></p>
    </body>
</html>

Stylesheet:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
        xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
        xmlns:tpl="tpl:namespace"
        xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
        exclude-result-prefixes="tpl">

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

    <xsl:template match="*[not(namespace-uri())] | xhtml:*">
        <xsl:element name="{local-name(.)}">
            <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="tpl:var">
        <xsl:element name="b">
            <xsl:value-of select="'blarg'"/>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

    <!-- last catchall, to be safe -->
    <xsl:template match="tpl:*"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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