RE: problem adding namespace node

From the source code of the page i notice that the outer node is exactly

bound. That's:
<query xmlns:p="http://majirus.org"><p:a/></query>
once more thank you for replying.
Kind regards,

From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: RE:  problem adding namespace node
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:05:42 -0000

The processor is unlikely to generate <p:a/> unless there is a namespace
declaration for p in scope. I suspect you are trying to add not a namespace
node, but a namespace declaration. It there a namespace declaration already
present on an outer node? The serializer will always eliminate redundant
namespace declarations.

Perhaps you are even trying to change the namespace of the p:a element. When
you create an element, you define its expanded name (namespace URI and local
name), and creating namespace nodes will never change the name of the
element.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Majirus FANSI [mailto:jmfansi@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 28 February 2006 16:58
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  problem adding namespace node
>
>
> Hi ken,
> thank you for replying.
> I did try <xsl:copy-of
> select="xalan:nodeset($dummy)/*/namespace::p"/>.
> But the situation remains the same. No namespace created. I
> have tried both
> with xalan 2.6.0 and saxon 8. The result is the same: only
> <p:a/>, without
> namespace declaration.
> any other tips are welcome.
> Regards,
>
> Majirus
>
> >From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re:  problem adding namespace node
> >Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:28:25 -0500
> >
> >At 2006-02-28 16:39 +0100, Majirus FANSI wrote:
> >>Should anyone knows how to add a namespace to a node?
> >>i have tried the following approach:
> >>first, i create a dummy attribute;
> >><xsl:variable name="dummy">
> >>  <xsl:element name="p:a" namespace="http://majirus.org"/>
> >></xsl:variable>
> >>From an xml node <a>, i write the following instruction:
> >><a><xsl:copy-of
> select="xalan:nodeset($dummy)/*/namespace::*[2]"/><a>
> >>but, as a result tree i have got only the <a/> element
> without namespace,
> >
> >Perhaps because you are addressing the namespace by its
> position, which is
> >processor dependent ... you cannot rely on the order of
> namespace nodes.
> >This is something my students find hard to understand:
> there *is* an
> >order, just that the stylesheet writer cannot rely on what
> the order is.
> >
> >Did you try:
> >
> >   <xsl:copy-of select="xalan:nodeset($dummy)/*/namespace::p"/>
> >
> >I think it would be cleaner if you had in your stylesheet:
> >
> >   <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:p="http://majirus.org">
> >
> >then you could do:
> >
> >   <xsl:copy-of select="document('')/*/namespace::p"/>
> >
> >I hope this helps.
> >
> >. . . . . . . . . . . Ken
> >
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