Thank you Erin... I'm sure your comments will keep two of us very busy
thinking for a while. Oh, the pain!
Would you say that a reasonable solution to Ferdinand's problem of sometimes
namespace-decorated, sometimes not-decorated tags, could be: when
generating literal elements, generate them with a specified namespace, e.g.
<xhtml:div> etc.
and then use exclude-result-prefixes for that specified namespace? (I'll
ignore the irony that in order to omit the namespace, you specify it.)
-----Original Message-----
From: Erin Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 1:32 PM
To: Ferdinand Soethe
Cc: xalan-j-users@xml.apache.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Why does Doctype change processing of a document]
Hi,
> except for the div-element
The div element is a literal element so all of the currently in scope
namespaces get copied to literal elements in the output document (unless
they have already been copied to a parent element). From the XSLT 1.0
Specification, Section 7.7.1 Literal Result Elements (
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#literal-result-element>
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#literal-result-element)
The created element node will also have a copy of the namespace nodes that
were present on the element node in the stylesheet tree with the exception
of any namespace node whose string-value is the XSLT namespace URI
(http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform), a namespace URI declared as an
extension namespace (see <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#extension-element>
[14.1 Extension Elements]), or a namespace URI designated as an excluded
namespace.
> And also: I expected to be able to do away with /*[local-name()='html']
> now that xhtml is default namespace. But it doesn't work that way. Why?
The default namespace is not used when matching nodes. From the XPath 1.0
Specification, Section 2.3 Node Tests (
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#node-tests>
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#node-tests):
A <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names#NT-QName> QName in the node test is
expanded into an <http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#dt-expanded-name>
expanded-name using the namespace declarations from the expression context.
This is the same way expansion is done for element type names in start and
end-tags except that the default namespace declared with xmlns is not used:
if the <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names#NT-QName> QName does not have a
prefix, then the namespace URI is null (this is the same way attribute names
are expanded).
> and try to remove xhtml with exclude-result-prefixes then things turn
> around. div will no longer have a namespace attribute while all the
> copied element do. Misterious really.
The copied elements are in the http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace in the
input document so the way copy works is that it makes sure that those
elements are also in that namespace in the output document. Because you
excluded the namespace it no longer appears on the <div> element (which I
assume is the parent of the copied nodes) so now it must appear on the
copied nodes themselves since there is no ancestor which has declared the
namespace.
If you don't want any namespace declarations showing up at all in the output
document then you will probably have to do your own copy such as:
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
<xsl:apply-templates
select="*|@*|text()|processing-instruction()|comment()"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*|text()|processing-instruction()|comment()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates
select="*|@*|text()|processing-instruction()|comment()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
Thanks.
Erin Harris
