Global namespace prefixes

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Subject: Global namespace prefixes
From: Nathan Potter <ndp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:45:14 -0800

Greetings,

I have the situation that I need to use (create elements in) a namespace whose name is contained in, but not a declared namespace of, the input document for my XSLT.

Input:

<Dataset xmlns="http://xml.opendap.org/ns/DAP/3.2#" base="http://base.document "> <Attribute name="Conventions" >CF-1.0</Attribute> <Attribute name="logname" />olson</Attribute> <Attribute name="host" />bb0001en</Attribute> </Dataset>

XSLT:

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

</xsl:stylesheet>

And this works:

<ns0:Conventions xmlns:ns131="http://base.document/att#">CF-1.0</ ns0:Conventions> <ns1:logname xmlns:ns132="http://base.document/att#">olson</ ns1:logname> <ns2:host xmlns:ns133="http://base.document/att#">bb0001en</ ns2:host>

However this bit of creating a new prefix for every element - even though the namespace is the same - is a bit of a drag from a readability standpoint. From what I can tell the only way to get a single, global, namespace prefix into the result tree is for it to be declared in the xsl:stylesheet element of the transform.

Is that true?

If so then I think that means I need to modify the xsl:stylesheet document for each document processed. Is that a reasonable design pattern?

Nathan


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