Subject: RE: Coalesce namespaces for XHTML
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 21:29:54 -0000
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xsl:copy-of produces an exact copy, namespace prefixes and all.
If you want to change prefixes, you need to use xsl:element as in your
example.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Retter [mailto:adam.retter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 09 February 2009 21:00
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Coalesce namespaces for XHTML
>
> Hi there,
>
> I am trying to generate XHTML content that can be delivered
> as text/html, which means that all elements must be in the
> default namespace of xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
>
> I have some source XML documents that contain some XML in my
> own namespace and also some XHTML snippets, I wish to copy
> these XHTML snippets into my output document, a simple
> example follows -
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <o:a xmlns:o="http://other" xmlns:xh="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <o:b>
> <xh:a href="http://somewebsite.com" title="some other
> website">some website</xh:a>
> </o:b>
> </o:a>
>
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="2.0" xmlns:o="http://other"
> xmlns:xh="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <xsl:output doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
> media-type="text/html" method="xhtml"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="o:a">
> <html>
> <body>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </body>
> </html>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="o:b">
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="xh:a">
> <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>
>
> Which generates the following output (Saxon 9.1.0.3) -
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html
> PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:o="http://other"
> xmlns:xh="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <body>
>
> <xh:a href="http://somewebsite.com" title="some other
> website">some website</xh:a>
>
>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> Now it all looks fine apart from the copied elements have
> kept their namespace prefix of xh: and not been places in the
> default namespace.
> The xh namespace and the default namespace are actually the
> same. In case thats not very clear, the output I wish to
> generate would look like this -
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html
> PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:o="http://other"
> xmlns:xh="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <body>
>
> <a href="http://somewebsite.com" title="some other
> website">some website</a>
>
>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> I can achieve that if I replace the template that matches
> xh:a with the following -
>
> <xsl:template match="xh:a">
> <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
> <xsl:copy-of select="@*|text()"/>
> </xsl:element>
> </xsl:template>
>
> However it does not seem like a good solution - is there a
> better way of achieving this?
>
> Thanks Adam.
>
>
> --
> Adam Retter
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