Output Formatting

Neal · October 12th, 2006, 03:45 AM

Hi,

I need to display the following output.

Code:

<InvoiceHeader xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:js-function="//ServerName/DirectoryPath/js-functions">

When I try to code the attribute (xmlns:fo), an error message is displayed due to the appearance of the ':' (I presume). Can anyone help please?

My code is

Code:

<xsl:element name="InvoiceHeader">
  <xsl:attribute name="xmlns:fo">http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format</xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:attribute name="xmlns:js-function">//ServerName/DirectoryPath/js-functions</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>

Thanks in advance,

Neal

A Northern Soul

mhkay · October 12th, 2006, 04:06 AM

In the XPath data model, attribute nodes and namespace nodes are quite separate animals. They only look the same when the nodes are serialized. You need to create a namespace node, not an attribute node.

For the js-function namespace, you don't just want to create a namespace node, you also want the InvoiceHeader element to be in this namespace. You should create the element as

<xsl:element name="InvoiceHeader" namespace="//ServerName/DirectoryPath/js-functions">

or more simply as

<InvoiceHeader xmlns="//ServerName/DirectoryPath/js-functions">

The namespace node will be created automatically, and you'll therefore get the namespace declaration attribute in the result when it is serialized.

The xmlns:fo namespace is a bit trickier, because you aren't actually using it: creating namespaces that you don't use is a rather unusual requirement. You can do it in 2.0 with

<xsl:namespace name="fo">http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format</xsl:namespace>

In 1.0 the simplest workaround is to create a document dummy.xml:

<dummy xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"/>

and then do

<xsl:copy-of select="document('dummy.xml')/dummy/namespace::fo"/>

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

Neal · October 12th, 2006, 05:12 AM

Thank You

Sorry, I forgot to mention, it is Version 1.0 I'm using.

Neal

A Northern Soul