Stop namespace node from appearing

JohnBampton · March 13th, 2009, 12:59 AM

I have this example XSL

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
      xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msn="http://foo.org"
      exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
      version="2.0">
    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"></xsl:output>
    <xsl:template match="root">
        <msn:sub>
            <xsl:apply-templates></xsl:apply-templates>
        </msn:sub>
    </xsl:template>    
</xsl:stylesheet>

my output has

<msn:sub xmlns:msn="http://foo.org">

I want it to be <msn:sub> only

How can I do that?

mhkay · March 13th, 2009, 04:08 AM

XSLT output will always be namespace-well-formed. If an element in the result tree uses the msn: prefix, then the result tree will contain a declaration of that prefix. There is no way of switching this off, any more than you could generate an end tag that doesn't match the corresponding start tag.