hi,

I am trying to remove namespace xmlns:aid="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/4.0/" from root element. My XML source looks something like below:

<chapter extra-info="Chapter 2" id="id_0073376965_001_000001" aid:pstyle="bch_nm" xmlns:aid="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/4.0/"><char>Chapter 2</char>
<title id="uuu" aid:cstyle="OOO">
<para id="xx" aid:pstyle="yy">
<char>PARR</char>
PA ZZZ SSSS.</para>
</title>
</chapter>

Below is the stylesheet, wherein I am removing the added attributes "aid:pstyle"
 and "aid:cstyle" and an <char> from the source.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0" xmlns:aid="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/4.0/">

<xsl:preserve-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="*|@*">
      <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="name()='aid:pstyle'">
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="name()='aid:cstyle'">
      </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>

Everything is fine with above stylesheet, which removes all the undesired attributes and element from it, but I am unable to remove xmlns:aid namespace from the root <chapter> element.

I've tried Michael's suggestion using the below code, but I am sure I did something wrong and not getting the output [or infact I am not sure where to add the below snippet in my above stylesheet].

<xsl:template match="*" mode="copy-sans-namespace">
        <xsl:element name="{local-name()}" namespace="">
            <xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
            <xsl:apply-templates mode="copy-sans-namespace" />
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

Can somebody give some advice on it.

Thanks for help.
Pankaj

Pankaj

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Pankaj

xsl:copy copies an element together with all its namespaces. In 2.0 you can use copy-namespaces="no" to prevent this. In 1.0 you must use xsl:element:

<xsl:element name="{local-name()}" namespace="{namespace-uri()}">

The code as you've written it should work except that it also changes the elements to be in the null namespace, which isn't what you said you wanted.

To remove attributes, a better approach is rather than

<xsl:template match="*|@*">
      <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="name()='aid:pstyle'">

override the identity template with

<xsl:template match="@aid:pstyle | @aid:cstyle/>

so when these attributes are matched, nothing is output.

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

Thanks again Michael.

It does the trick.

Pankaj

Pankaj