Okay, So I need some help. AGAIN.

aaronmuslim · March 27th, 2008, 03:31 PM

Okay so I was constructing an XSLT stylesheet and I used a namespace declaration for the root element and it adds blank ones to the child elements of it. Why?? how to do I stop it from adding blank namespaces (xmlns="") to the child nodes of this root element?

Code:

<xsl:template match="/theRoot">
 <xsl:element name="resultsRoot" namespace="(URL goes here)">
  <xsl:element name="childOfRoot1">value</xsl:element>
  <xsl:element name="childOfRoot2">value</xsl:element>
  <xsl:element name="childOfRoot3">value</xsl:element>
 </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

The results :

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<resultsRoot xmlns="(whatever url I put)">
 <childOfRoot1 xmlns="">value</childOfRoot1>
 <childOfRoot2 xmlns="">value</childOfRoot2>
 <childOfRoot3 xmlns="">value</childOfRoot3>
</resultsRoot>

Whats the work around? Do I have to include the same
names space for the kids too?

mhkay · March 27th, 2008, 04:46 PM

Yes, if you want a constructed element to be in a particular namespace then you have to put it in that namespace, it doesn't default to being in the same namespace as its new parent.

But why are you using xsl:element? If the names are known at compile time then it's much easier to use literal result elements:

<resultsRoot>
  <child1/>
  <child2/>
  <child3/>
</resultsRoot>

with literal result elements, the namespace is inherited from a containing element *in the stylesheet* - which isn't necessarily the same, of course, as the name of the new parent element *in the result tree*.

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

aaronmuslim · March 28th, 2008, 02:23 PM

Well I used the xsl:element tag because I'm new and don't really know the intra-workings of xslt. I ran into problems trying to use the literal <child1/> style. I don't know if you remember my first post but I couldn't get the processor to recognize it as a new element instead of as being part of the stylesheet markup.

However, I realize that the problems I'm having are coming from my lack of knowledge and the more I work with these things "hands on" the faster I'm going to learn them. I learn programming languages best with trial and error and books then just books alone.

I really appreciate you responding to my inquiry here in the forums mkay.

aaronmuslim · March 28th, 2008, 02:36 PM

Okay, so I tried using the literal for the elements I know at compile time and everything worked fine. I've concluded that it wouldn't work the first time in my first post because I'm retarded and probably had some kind of syntax error.

Thanks again....