Well, namespaces are a known confusion factor. There is the namespace on
the input elements, which is the DocBook 5 namespace, and the namespace on
the output elements, which is XHTML's namespace.
In my previous response, I thought we were still talking about reading an
external file with the dbhtml-insert processing instruction to insert an
HTML fragment. If that were the case, then that fragment in the external
file would need:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<p>My stuff</p>
</html>
Since this content is just copied, the input namespace also needs to be the
XHTML namespace. Then when that content is copied, the elements are in the
right namespace for XHTML output.
In your present case, however, you are generating the HTML fragment in the
stylesheet's user.header.content template. The xhtml-1_1/docbook.xsl
stylesheet that the epub stylesheet imports has this namespace declaration:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml (among others)
By not including a namespace prefix, this declaration sets the default
output namespace for any generated elements to this namespace. That means
that any output elements that don't otherwise have a namespace assigned to
them will get the XHTML namespace.
However, your stylesheet customization lacks this default namespace
declaration, so the elements your customization generates are *not* in that
namespace (a default namespace is not inherited by xsl:import).
So any stylesheet customization using XHTML output needs to declare this
default namespace. The last example on this page shows this:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/OtherOutputForms.html#CustomizeXhtml
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Nagle" <[email protected]>
To: "Bob Stayton" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] why do user templates generate empty xmlns
attributes?
Alas, now I am even more confused (but hopeful!).
what do you mean by the "root element of the included html"? I'm not
sure what action I can take here.
i have an index.xml file plus several xinclude files. one such
xincluded file is called nt001.xml.
The top stuff of nt001.xml. looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE book [
<!ENTITY % isopub SYSTEM
"http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/iso8879/isopub.ent";>
%isopub;
]>
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; version="5.0" xml:id="nt001">
<title>Would Kafka have kept a weblog? </title>
the generated html file nt001.html looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";><head><title>Would Kafka
have kept a weblog?
the top stuff of the index.xml file looks like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?oxygen
RNGSchema="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/5.0/rng/docbookxi.rng";
type="xml"?>
<!DOCTYPE book [
<!ENTITY % isopub SYSTEM
"http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/iso8879/isopub.ent";>
%isopub;
]>
<book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook";
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; version="5.0"
xml:id="index5">
<info>
I wish to add that I can't even begin to guess how to add this
namespace reference or what it would look like. Common sense would
tell me that I'd need to add <html
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> at the beginning of the
xincluded file. If I recall, my xml editor Oxygen couldn't validate
the character entities in my docbook project without a doctype
declaration, and that was preventing me from adding <html
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>. My memory becomes fuzzy.....
thanks for your help. .
Rj
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Bob Stayton <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Robert,
1) The epub stylesheet generates XHTML, which is in the XHTML namespace:
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
You will need to add that namespace attribute to the root element of your
included HTML. If you don't then the processor marks it as being outside
of
the XHTML namespace.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Nagle"
<[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:30 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] why do user templates generate empty xmlns
attributes?
When on the advice of Bob Stayton's last email
(http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200910/msg00021.html)
I created a custom template for my customization layer , I notice
something strange.
</head><body><p xmlns=""><b>Hi Mom!</b></p><div class="chapter"
title="Would Kafka have kept a weblog?"><div
class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a
xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon"; id="nt001"/>Would Kafka have kept a
weblog? </h1></div></div></div>
Two questions:
1)why does <p xmlns=""> show an empty value. (That actually makes the
code invalid and the resulting .epub invalid as well).
2)what is going on here: <a xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon";> Why
is this namespace value there in the first place?
I notice that these kinds of weirdness/errors pop up all the time
whenever I try to put an xsl:template statement in my customization
layer file. I could live with the second error, but not the first.
Any idea what is causing this to happen?
My customization layer is pretty vanilla. It's for epub/chunked html
output.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
<xsl:import
href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.75.2/epub/docbook.xsl"/>
<xsl:param name="epub.metainf.dir">META-INF/</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="epub.oebps.dir">OEBPS/</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="use.id.as.filename">1</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="html.stylesheet">first.css</xsl:param>
<!--<xsl:param name="show.comments">1</xsl:param>-->
<xsl:param name="label.from.part" select="0"></xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="chapter.autolabel">0</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="part.autolabel">0</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="img.src.path">images/</xsl:param>
<xsl:template name="user.header.content">
<p><b>Hi Mom!</b></p>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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Robert Nagle
htpt://www.robertnagle.info
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