Re: Why is an empty xmlns="" added to child when I add

On 6 June 2011 18:30, Alex Muir <amuir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following code adds a namespace to the mediawiki element and a
> copyAll I import copies the other elements
>
>  <xsl:import href="copyAll.xsl"/>
>  <xsl:template match="mediawiki">
>    <mediawiki  xmlns="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4/"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4/
> http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4.xsd" version="0.4"
> xml:lang="en">
>      <xsl:apply-templates/>
>    </mediawiki>
>  </xsl:template>
>
> However in the result the child element <page> gets a blank xmlns=""
> attribute added..... Why?
>
> <mediawiki xmlns="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4/"
>   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4/
> http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4.xsd"
>   version="0.4" xml:lang="en">
>   <page xmlns="">

If <page> comes from your stylesheet, then its not in-scope for the
default namespace change.

If <page> comes from your input, then its it no namespace so rather
than copy it you will have to create a new element in the result with
the local name "page" in the right namespace, then copy page's
attributes and process its children.


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Andrew Welch
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