NOEL ALEX MAKUMULI schrieb am 29.04.2009 um 01:45:03 (+0300): > > hello Michael, > thanks for the quick and nice suggestions..
Hi Noel, you're welcome. > well i have to say that the issue which you have pointed out is the > nine namespaces which some have no use..i asked the same question.. > > the issue which i am trying to achieve is to get the individual string > value like status and language code.. > > if i remember correctly when i was doing transformation from one XMlL > format to another XML format....like shown below: > <Root> > <child>child</child> > </Root> > the XSL transformation is pretty easy: <xsl:value-of > select="/Root/child"> and will get the output child--- <xsl:value-of> gets the string value; <xsl:copy-of> copies the node. > the issue is that the SOAP which comes has a lot of information which > i really do not need... and i would like to use XSL to filter this > information and remain with the few data which i would use.. Start out with the so-called "identity transform": <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";> <xsl:template match="@*|node()"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> As step 1, run the transform, and look at the result to see the effect. Then add the following rules one by one and repeat step 1 each time around. Add parsing and serialization instructions to get clean input and output: <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/><!-- for parsing --> <xsl:output indent="yes"/><!-- for serialization --> Replace the document element: <xsl:template match="/*"><!-- document element --> <Root> <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/> </Root> </xsl:template> Replace the cmn:state element, and here, you need to add the namespace to the stylesheet, and if you don't want it in the output, then you exclude it: <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:cmn="http://www.companyName.com/XMLSchema/compMain.xsd"; exclude-result-prefixes="cmn" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";> <xsl:template match="cmn:state"> <child><xsl:apply-templates/></child> </xsl:template> Final touch, add a rule to filter out everything else: <xsl:template match="*" priority="-0.4"> <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/> </xsl:template> > :-) i am not an expert in XSL and XML ... > when i said normal XML file i meant the one which has root doctype.. > > i have tried the <xsl:copy-of> and this is the sample result:: > <soap_message><cmn:responseStatus > xmlns:fs="http://www.asiakastieto.fi/XMLSchema/FinancialStatementCompany_4.03.xsd"; > xmlns:pr="http://www.asiakastieto.fi/XMLSchema/PopulationInformation_4.00.xsd";> > 1</cmn:responseStatus></soap_message> > > is there any possible way to remove the namesapces here and have > something clean like:: > <Root> > > <child>child</child> > > </Root> See above. > i am certainly heading to Mulberrytech.com .. > > could you please suggest some nice readings of XSL and XSL > namespaces..because i would like to learn more about this now.. Namespaces are just a mapping from prefixes to URIs (well, strings). Not much to say. For XSLT, there are good sites and books: * http://www.jenitennison.com/ * http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/ * books by Jeni Tennison, Michael Kay, Evan Lenz, others I hope this helps :-) Michael Ludwig
