dynamic xslt -> xslt creation namespace problem

jkmyoung · July 14th, 2006, 01:24 PM

I have created an xslt sheet to create an xslt sheet.
My problem lies in placing the namespaces in the root <xsl:stylesheet> node.

Things I've tried:

Code:

<xsl:template match="/report">
    <xsl:element name="xsl:stylesheet">
        <xsl:attribute name="version">1.0</xsl:attribute>
                <xsl:attribute name="xmlns:abc">www.communicator.com</xsl:attribute>
        <xsl:copy-of select="document('')//namespace::*"/>
        <xsl:value-of select="document('')//namespace::*"/>

Unfortunately, none of these 3 seem to work properly.
Is there a proper method to do this?

jkmyoung · July 14th, 2006, 03:12 PM

<xsl:copy-of select="document('')//namespace::*"/> worked when I tried it with Saxon, however does not with xml spy.

mhkay · July 15th, 2006, 12:42 AM

This should not work, because attribute nodes and namespace nodes in the data model are quite different things:

<xsl:attribute name="xmlns:abc">www.communicator.com</xsl:attribute>

This should work. It's defined to work by an erratum to the XSLT 1.0 specification. If it doesn't work you should raise a bug report:

<xsl:copy-of select="document('')//namespace::*"/>

This shouldn't work. xsl:value-of creates a text node, not a namespace node:

<xsl:value-of select="document('')//namespace::*"/>

The best solution, however, is to use a namespace alias:

<xsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="x" result-prefix="xsl"/>

and then create the stylesheet element using a literal result element:

<x:stylesheet>...</x:stylesheet>

There's an example under xsl:namespace-alias in the spec.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference