attribute xmlns added in included xsl

Kabe · November 23rd, 2004, 10:33 AM

hi

using these settings:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output encoding="ISO-8859-1" version="4.0" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" media-type="text/html"/><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" >

Problem:
- tags used in first xsl are ok.
- when importing xslfile into main file, an attribute xmlns="" is added to each html-tag

i'm using these headers in xsl-import files:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

how to avoid xsl imported files from adding xmlns="" after parsing ?

thx,
kabe.be

joefawcett · November 23rd, 2004, 10:43 AM

xmlns="" is not an attribute it's a namespace declaration.
It's hard to say exaclty what's causing it without seeing the files but if you create an element in a default namespace, e.g.

Code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/>

and then you create another element within that one without a namespace then you must undeclare the namespace with xmlns="". E.g.:

Code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<xsl:element name="body"/>
</html>

body has no namespace declared so results must be like this:

Code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<body xmlns=""/>
</html>

The fact that you have a dtd means namespace declarations maybe being enforced via that.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

Kabe · November 23rd, 2004, 10:49 AM

indeed, that's just the point that xmlns="" is added

(detail: i'm using msxml4.0)

it's the first time i'm facing this problem cause I want to create strict xhtml.

If you like, I can send u the (2) files

joefawcett · November 23rd, 2004, 11:05 AM

Can you show an small example of the xslt and the result you want versus the result you get?

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

Kabe · November 23rd, 2004, 11:16 AM

Here the examples. As you'll see, the problem occurs only in the include on first level (2.), include on second level (3.) is again ok.

1. default.xsl: Master XSL
**************************
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:include href="includes/mainbox/main_default.xsl"/>

<xsl:output method="html" encoding="ISO-8859-1" version="4.0" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" media-type="text/html"/>
<xsl:template match="/">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="nl">
<head>
<title></title>

<xsl:for-each select="//PROPERTIES/RECORDS[@label = 'css']/RECORD">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="{type}" href="{$CssPath}{file}" />
</xsl:for-each>
</head>
<body>

<div id="mainbox"><xsl:call-template name="Main_Default"/></div>

<div id="bottombox"><xsl:call-template name="Bottom_Default"/></div>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

2. main_default.xsl: included in default.xsl
********************************************
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:include href="main_body.xsl"/>

<xsl:template name="Main_Default">
<div id="mainbody"><xsl:call-template name="Main_Body"/></div>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

3. main_body.xsl: included in main_default.xsl
**********************************************
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template name="Main_Body">
<div ="test">test</div>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

4. 1+2+3 result as:
******************
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xml:lang="nl" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/_backend/style/profiles/default/http/css/default.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<div id="mainbox">
    <div id="mainbody" xmlns="">
        <div id="test">test</div>
    </div>
    <div id="mainheader" xmlns="">header</div>
    <div id="mainfooter" xmlns="">footer</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>

5. the result I want:
*********************
....
<body>
<div id="mainbox">
    <div id="mainbody">
        <div id="test">test</div>
    </div>
    <div id="mainheader">header</div>
    <div id="mainfooter">footer</div>
</div>
</body>
.....

joefawcett · November 23rd, 2004, 12:17 PM

It's a bit complicated...

In your main stylesheet you declare a default namespace, xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" and this applies to all unprefixed elements within that stylesheet. The included documents do not have this so the elements are in no namespace so the processor must undeclare the namespace. To correct it you need to declare the default namespace in all the stylesheets, e.g. in main_default.xsl then have:

Code:

<xsl:template name="Main_Default" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

Alternatively you can specify a namespace on the elements when you declare them,

Code:

<div id="mainbody" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

.

By the way your output method is not html but xml.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

Kabe · November 23rd, 2004, 12:24 PM

thx a lot !!!