Creating xsi:type as an attribute

AjayLuthria · May 9th, 2007, 05:42 AM

I am using XSL to create elements and attributes

Its not permitting me to create an attribute called
xsi:type as an attribute to an element.

Code:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" 
xmlns:fix="http://www.fixprotocol.org/FIXML-4-4" 
xmlns:i="http://www.ABC.com/interests:i" 
xmlns:strategies="http://www.ABC.com/strategies" 
xmlns:common="http://www.ABC.com/equity.derivatives/common"
exclude-result-prefixes="fo"> 

..

<xsl:element name="i:Details">
<xsl:attribute name="xsi:type">
<xsl:text>i:details.stock</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>

How can I create xsi:type as an attribute to element i:Details
so that the output looks like:

Code:

i:Details xsi:type="i:details.stock">

Am I overlooking something? I am new to using xsi:type

tripecac · May 9th, 2007, 09:14 AM

Maybe I'm completely off here, but when you use a namespace like xsi, don't you have to declare it first?

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance"

mhkay · May 9th, 2007, 10:23 AM

Actually, in xsl:attribute, there are two ways of indicating the namespace. You can use

<xsl:attribute name="foo:bar"/>

in which case foo must have been declared, or you can use

<xsl:attribute name="foo:bar" namespace="uri"/>

in which case foo does not need to have been declared, since the namespace URI is taken from the namespace attribute, and not from the namespace binding of foo.

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

tripecac · May 9th, 2007, 01:46 PM

So would he need this?

Code:

<xsl:attribute name="xsi:type" namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance">
  <xsl:text>i:details.stock</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>

mhkay · May 9th, 2007, 02:15 PM

Either of the following should do:

So would he need this?

<xsl:attribute name="xsi:type" namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance">
<xsl:text>i:details.stock</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:attribute name="xsi:type" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance">
<xsl:text>i:details.stock</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>

(I thought I had answered this, but I must have made the usual mistake of replying to the email notification...)

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

AjayLuthria · May 10th, 2007, 09:49 AM

Thanks a lot folks
I have solved this issue
Thans,once again