RE: Unrecognised namespace beginning with '//'

At first sight this looks like a Xalan bug, but one can't be sure without
seeing the full stylesheet, especially line 135.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Rihak [mailto:jrihak@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 13 April 2005 11:06
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Unrecognised namespace beginning with '//'
> 
> Hi list, 
> 
> I'm working on transformations on XMI files generated by Borland
> Together 6.2. This modeling and code generation tool 
> generates XMI files
> with the following namespace declarations: 
> 
> <XMI xmi.version = '1.1' xmlns:UML = '//org.omg/UML/1.3'>
> 
> My XSLT transformation file starts with: 
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> 		xmlns:UML='//org.omg/UML/1.3'
> 		xmlns:uml='omg.org/UML/1.4'
> 		xmlns:xalan="org.apache.xalan.xslt.extensions.Redirect"
>                 extension-element-prefixes="xalan"
> 		exclude-result-prefixes="UML"
> 		version="1.0">
> 
> The 'uml'-namespace is used for the output document. Further, 
> I use the
> xalan XSLT processor to process the transformation. Now, xalan outputs
> the following error message, when processing the input file 
> with my XSLT
> transformation file: 
> 
> SystemId Unknown; Line #135; Column #43; XSLT Error
> (javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException):
> javax.xml.transform.TransformerException:
> javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: A location step was expected
> following the '/' or '//' token.
> 
> When I omit the double slash in the namespace declarations of 
> the input
> XMI document and the transformation file, e.g.
> xmlns:UML='org.omg/UML/1.3' the transformation works fine, no error is
> output. 
> 
> Are there any ideas how I could get the transformation to work without
> modifying the XMI file generated by Borland Together 6.2? 
> 
> Thank you in advance, best regards,
> Jan 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jan Rihak
> email: jrihak@xxxxxxx
> phone: 0041 (0)79 315 35 26