Hello all,
I have few issues related with XSLT and would appreciate if somebody from group can guide me.

I've written a style sheet to transform one xml to another xml, wherein I am adding the

"xmlns:aid="http://ns.xxx.com/Metayy/4.0/" to my <root> element.

Something like below:

<root xmlns:psq="http://ns.xxx.com/Metayy/4.0/" psq:tye="bsk" psq:tps="tcs">.

I do not found any problem in adding the namespaces to the original xml but when I need to retransform this xml to the original, I’m unable to remove the “xmlns:psq” from it. Although there are no issues in removing the other namespaces ( psq:tye="bsk" and psq:tps="tcs") globally from the xml document, but the first namespace declaration remains intact even after transformation.

I’ve tried exclude-result-prefixes=”” to get the desired output but seems to be in vain. Can somebody let me know whether using exclude-result-prefixes=”” can resolve my trouble?

My second issue is to convert all the UTF entities back to corresponding Unicode values. I hope this can be achieved from XSLT itself, instead of using other conversion tool, which is least desirable.

Any guidance in this regard will be highly appreciated.

Pankaj

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Pankaj

I can't tell what's wrong with your code without seeing your code.

Generally the rule is that with xsl:copy, namespaces are copied from the source document; with literal result elements, they are copied from the stylesheet. If you want to copy an element without its namespaces, use xsl:element name="{name()}" namespace="{namespace-uri()}">. exclude-result-prefixes only affects namespaces copied from the stylesheet, not those copied from the source document.

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

Hi Michael
Thanks for quick response.

This is my root element. Frankly speaking I've never ever had any requirement for removing the xmlns, that's the reason I am struggling with it. Can you throw some on it.

Thanks in advance.

<root xmlns:psq="http://ns.xxx.com/Metayy/4.0/" psq:tye="bsk" psq:tps="tcs">
</root>

Below is my style sheet.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="*|@*">
      <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="name()='psq:tye'">
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="name()='psq:tps'">
      </xsl:when>

<xsl:when test="name()='char'">
      </xsl:when>
     <xsl:otherwise>
    <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="text()|*|@*"/>
        </xsl:copy>
     </xsl:otherwise>
     </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

It's like I thought, you are copying the element with xsl:copy and this copies all the namespaces. In XSLT 2.0 you can set copy-namespaces="no", but in 1.0 you have to change from xsl:copy to xsl:element.

You're not using template rules to good advantage. Instead of adding an xsl:choose into your identity template with conditions like <xsl:when test="name()='char'">, define additional template rules, in this case <xsl:template match="char">.

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