Re: Global namespace prefixes (Corrected Examples)

And it works. Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<output xmlns:dap="http://xml.opendap.org/ns/DAP/3.2#">
  <ns0:Conventions xmlns:ns0="http://base.document/att#">CF-1.0</

I'm surprised by those prefixes. An XSLT 1 processor is given a lot of
freedom to change prefixes at will, but most do not do so unless forced
to do so to avoid a namespace clash.

saxon6 (the old xslt 1 version of saxon)

produces

$ saxon mns.xml mns.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<output xmlns:dap="http://xml.opendap.org/ns/DAP/3.2#">

<Conventions xmlns="http://base.document/att#">CF-1.0</Conventions>

<logname xmlns="http://base.document/att#">olson</logname>

<host xmlns="http://base.document/att#">bb0001en</host>

</output>

In XSLT2 the system wuld have to generate unprefixed names in this
context and saxon9 produes the same result:

$ saxon9 mns.xml mns.xsl
Warning: at xsl:stylesheet on line 5 column 9 of mns.xsl:
 Running an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet with an XSLT 2.0 processor
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<output xmlns:dap="http://xml.opendap.org/ns/DAP/3.2#">
   <Conventions xmlns="http://base.document/att#">CF-1.0</Conventions>
   <logname xmlns="http://base.document/att#">olson</logname>
   <host xmlns="http://base.document/att#">bb0001en</host>
</output>

Note that while no prefixes are generated the namespace declaration does
appear multiple times as there is no parent element with the same
namespace. If the element <output> was placed in the namespace instead of
no-namespace then the namespace would only need to be declared once.


If I change the stylesheet to

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
      xmlns:dap="http://xml.opendap.org/ns/DAP/3.2#"

   <xsl:output method='xml' version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'
indent='yes'/>

<xsl:template match="dap:Dataset" >
<xsl:element name="output" namespace="{/dap:Dataset/@base}/ att#">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="dap:Attribute" >
<xsl:element name="{@name}"
namespace="{/dap:Dataset/@base}/att#"><xsl:value-of select="." /></ xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I get

$ saxon mns.xml mns.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<output xmlns="http://base.document/att#">

<Conventions>CF-1.0</Conventions>

<logname>olson</logname>

<host>bb0001en</host>

</output>


David

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