Exclude a namespace with no prefix

bonekrusher · January 22nd, 2009, 01:28 PM

Hi,

I have a names space:

xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"

How do exclude it from my output since there is no prefix?

e.g.

exclude-result-prefixes="fo ss o x #default"

thanks

mhkay · January 22nd, 2009, 01:38 PM

You seem to have guessed the syntax correctly: "#default".

Martin Honnen · January 22nd, 2009, 01:38 PM

Does the #default not do what you want?
What exactly are you trying to achieve? Can you show us the relevant parts of your stylesheet?

bonekrusher · January 22nd, 2009, 02:44 PM

Ok, I tried #default in both xmlspy and saxon.

I have an ms excel xml file with the following namespaces:

<Workbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

I am able to exclude all but:

xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"

Any thoughts

Martin Honnen · January 23rd, 2009, 07:40 AM

Well exclude-result-prefixes does not change the namespace of elements in your XML input document.
What is it that you want to achieve?
If you want to process elements in the namespace urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet like that Workbook element and want to strip the namespace then you need to write a template for that e.g.

Code:

<xsl:stylesheet
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  version="2.0"
  xmlns:mss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet">

  <xsl:template match="mss:*">
    <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>

  ...

But I am guessing what you might want to achieve with the exclude-result-prefixes, it is better you explain what you want to transform your Workbook element to.

mhkay · January 23rd, 2009, 08:05 AM

exclude-result-prefixes only excludes a namespace if

(a) the namespace is unused, and

(b) the namespace would otherwise be included in the result by virtue of the rules for literal result elements, that is, an LRE is copied to the result together with all its in-scope namespaces

If the namespace is used in the result document, or if it gets into the result document some other way (e.g. via xsl:copy) then exclude-result-prefixes has no effect.

bonekrusher · January 23rd, 2009, 08:48 AM

Thanks Michael and Martin.

This is great info. I was able to figure it out by adding a prefix to the namespace (as Martin suggested).
e.g

xmlns:mss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"

Thanks again.