<xsl:template match="*"> -- * means for all the elements
  <xsl:element name="{local-name()}" namespace="preferred-uri"> -- means element name is always local-name
    <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/> -- means what ?
    <xsl:apply-templates/> -- means what ?
  </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>


A. Sasi

If you're worried about performance, switch to Saxon ;)

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

Hi Michael,
Thanks for your solution . i still have one small doubt and i need your help .

i have a source xml without any namespace bindings and prefixes. i have a xsl stylesheet to transform this source xml .

i am directly transforming it . for 10000 requests its taking some 548 sec's to transform all the 10000 .

Now i modified the same source xml . Now the source xml contains namespace bindings . Now my stylesheet will not work .
So i changed my java code so that it will take the source xml first and then apply the stylesheet given by you earlier .Now this removed all the namespace bindings & prefixes.Now i applied my original stylesheet. for 10000 requests its taking nearly 553 sec's now .

but what i thought was it will take more time in the second approach than in first bcoz we are doing one more additional step here for removal of namespace. But the results are not like that .

i dont know why both have taken same time . can you please tell me the reason if you know ? Any way i am using xalan to transform the xml.

Thanks.

A. Sasi

Sorry, but (a) I know very little about Xalan performance, and (b) there's far too little information here to go on. Understanding performance differences between two different applications/programs is something that usually requires very detailed study, it can often depend on factors that you didn't imagine would be significant. So one simply can't answer you question from the information given.

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

Hi Michael,

Ok Yaar , But any clue if i am doing one more step extra to convert the xml also its taking the same time . i also tried very hard to find out the reason .

Thanks & Regards,


A. Sasi

Hi Michael,

The Xsl you have given only converting the elements .

That is i am applying the xsl on top of a xml which contains prefixes .

This xsl is converting only the elements into other namespace .
I have attributes also with namespaces . In that case it is failing.

How to convert the attributes also into another namespace-uri or null namespace.

Thanks & Regards,
SASI.A


A. Sasi

Replace

<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>

by

<xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>

and then use a similar technique to change the namespace of your attributes:

<xsl:template match="@*">
<xsl:attribute name="{local-name()}" namespace="????">
  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>

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

Hi Michale,

The solution in some what confusing . Can you please paste the entire xsl .?

Thanks & Regards,
SAsi.A

A. Sasi

Please see the other thread on which you have raised this.

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