Forcing a namespace declaration

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Subject: Forcing a namespace declaration
From: "tom tom" <tomxsllist@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 14:37:11 +0100

Hi all,

The following XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<n xmlns="http://www.test.com" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/>

uses the following XSLT:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:rss1="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" exclude-result-prefixes="rss1" xpath-default-namespace="http://www.test.com">

<xsl:output indent="yes" method="xml"/>

<xsl:template match="n" > <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" > <channel>fffffff</channel> </rdf:RDF> </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

to generate the following XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
        xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
  <channel xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/">fffffff</channel>
</rdf:RDF>

I'm using XSLT 2 in Saxon 8.

The problem is I need the http://purl.org/rss/1.0/ xmlns declaration to appear on the root element instead of on the channel element.

I believe it is appearing where it is due to the xmlns:rss1="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" declaration, as when I remove this it works in the way I want it to. The xmlns:rss1="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" declaration is needed on the root element as elsewhere in the stylesheet I need to process an external document with elements belonging to this namespace.

The only way I can see to fix this is to have xpath-default-namespace attributes scattered at appropriate points in the stylesheet. As the templates do not separate easily into sections determined by which XML document they are working on i believe this will lead to code that is difficult to read.

Can anyone explain why http://purl.org/rss/1.0/ is being declared on channel instead of the root element?

Can anyone propose a better solution to this problem than the one I have come up with?

Thanks

Tom

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