"xmlns" not allowing to work

[email protected] · July 30th, 2010, 08:34 AM

Hi,

In one of my project the xml files have the “xmlns” attribute/namespace in the root element. But XSL’s match command is not recognizing it and If I removed that "xmlns" from the root element the XSLT works file. Can anybody please suggest how I can allow this in XSLT?

Below is the XML, XSLT and OUTPUT.

Thanks,
Anil Yadav

XSLT

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform 
xmlns:xlink=http://www.guideposts.com
xmlns=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook
version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="book">
<xsl:text>**BOOK**</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

XML

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
<title>The Best Medicine</title>
</book>

OUTPUT Required

Code:

**BOOK**

joefawcett · July 30th, 2010, 08:43 AM

See the first post in this category, Hints for a good XSLT post.

Especially the bit towards the end about selecting elements in a namespace.

mhkay · July 30th, 2010, 08:56 AM

Or just google for "XSLT FAQ default namespace". The key thing to note is that a default namespace declaration puts all your element names in a namespace, and unprefixed names in the stylesheet are searching for element names in no namespace.