RE: Declaring ns-prefixes for namespaces imported with

XSLT 2.0 has an xsl:namespace instruction for this purpose - it generates a
namespace node in the result tree, in the same way as xsl:attribute
generates an attribute node.

For XSLT 1.0 there's a workaround, so long as your processor supports
xx:node-set(): you create an element in a temporary tree with the
appropriate namespace, and then copy its namespace nodes:

<xsl:variable name="dummy">
  <xsl:element name="{$prefix}:dummy" namespace="{$uri}"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:copy-of select="xx:node-set($dummy)//namespace::*"/>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Melskens [mailto:tridero@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 05 May 2006 14:36
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Declaring ns-prefixes for namespaces imported 
> within a generated xml:schema
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Can anyone help me with the following simplified version of 
> my problem?
> 
> I have a lot of XML-Schema's in which a lot of elements are 
> created at global level. Each of them is created by a 
> different creator and they all have their own target 
> namespace. They all can refer to eachother and we don't know 
> all schema's which will be used.
> Besides that I also have XML files describing a specific form 
> (lets call them form-instances).
> Within each form-instance the elements are listed which are 
> used within the related form.
> In future a lot of different forms (and form-instances) will 
> be created.
> 
> In the future we will also receive a lot of XML-instances, 
> representing the content of the form.
> To be able to validate these XML-instances we would like to 
> generate an XML-Schema for each form-instance.
> 
> Using XSLT I create this, top level, XML-schema which imports 
> all schema's containing one or more of the elements used 
> within the form-instance.
> I also create a top level element in which I place the needed 
> elements which refer to the elements within the other XML-Schema's.
> To be able to distinguish the namespace of each element I 
> need to create a prefix for each namespace which I will use 
> within the 'ref' attribute of the 'xs:element' element.
> Since I don't know beforehand which namespace will be 
> imported and don't know all possible namespaces I can't hard 
> code the namespaces within my 'xsl:stylesheet' element.
> As most of us will know declaring a prefix for each namespace 
> needs to be done using the 'xmlns:xx' attribute.
> However this attribute can't be created by using the 'xsl:attribute' 
> element.
> 
> This is where de development of my stylesheet drives against 
> a big wall.
> 
> Does anyone knows a way to overcome this problem? Thanks in advance.
> 
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