Hi,

I have a XSLT and in the output xml there is an element with a namespace attribute xmlns="". I want to get rid of this attribute as its not needed. Any ideas?

ie. <price xmlns=""><value>10.00</value></price>


Regards,

John

This attribute ensures that the <price> element is in the null namespace. If the rest of your output is in a specific namespace then this probably means that you are not creating the <price> element correctly in your XSLT.

If you are not using namespaces at all in your XML then there is no harm in leaving this attribute there - to an XML parser the following are identical XML documents:

and

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This is xml XSLT. I don't want the xmlns="" on the price element. IS there anyway to fix this?


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0" xmlns:temp="http://schemas.fruugo.com/merchant-product" >
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="temp:merchantProductdata" >
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" ></xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"></xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="temp:prices">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="temp:price[normalize-space(temp:pricetype) = 'NORMAL']"></xsl:apply-templates>
<xsl:if test="child::temp:price[normalize-space(temp:pricetype) = 'NORMAL']">
<price xsl:exclude-result-prefixes="temp">
<pricetype>DISCOUNT</pricetype>
<value><xsl:value-of select="child::temp:price[normalize-space(temp:pricetype) = 'NORMAL']/temp:value * 0.9" ></xsl:value-of></value>
<currency><xsl:value-of select="child::temp:price[normalize-space(temp:pricetype) = 'NORMAL']/temp:currency" ></xsl:value-of></currency>
</price>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Presumably the reason you don't want the xmlns="" on the <price> element is that you want this element to be in the same namespace as its parent element (that is "http://schemas.fruugo.com/merchant-product") and not in the null namespace.

If you want the price element to be in this namespace, put it there, by creating it as <temp:price> rather than <price>; and the same of course for the children of <price>

Generally the principle is: think about what expanded name to give to your created elements (expanded name = uri + local name). If you put your elements in the right namespace, the namespace declarations will take care of themselves.

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