xml indent looses namespace

kinka-dzs · July 9th, 2012, 08:04 AM

Hello everybody, I know little about XSLT, but i need a very simple thing. Basically i need to format (indent) an xml file. This transformation already does everything i need:

Code:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:patchv2="http://patchv2.dnbgp.dnb.com/schema/2.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <xsl:output method="xml"/>
   <xsl:param name="indent-increment" select="'   '" />

   <xsl:template match="*">
      <xsl:param name="indent" select="'&#xA;'"/>
      <xsl:value-of select="$indent"/>
      <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
        <xsl:apply-templates>
          <xsl:with-param name="indent" select="concat($indent, $indent-increment)"/>
        </xsl:apply-templates>
        <xsl:if test="*">
          <xsl:value-of select="$indent"/>
        </xsl:if>
      </xsl:copy>
   </xsl:template>
   <xsl:template match="comment()|processing-instruction()">
      <xsl:copy />
   </xsl:template>
   <!-- WARNING: this is dangerous. Handle with care -->
   <xsl:template match="text()[normalize-space(.)='']"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The problem though is that this works fine for simple xml (no workspace....), but my xml file:

Code:

<patchv2:patchList xmlns:patchv2="http://patchv2.dnbgp.dnb.com/schema/2.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://ci-dnbi.us.dnb.com/standards/schema/patchv2-2.0.2.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://patchv2.dnbgp.dnb.com/schema/2.0.0 http://ci-dnbi.us.dnb.com/standards/schema/patchv2-2.0.2.xsd">
	<patchv2:patchEntry>
		<patchv2:patchVersion>RT60.2NA2A</patchv2:patchVersion>
        </patchv2:patchEntry>
        ...
</patchv2:patchList>

gets tranformed (indented correctly) to:

Code:

<patchList xmlns:patchv2="http://patchv2.dnbgp.dnb.com/schema/2.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://ci-dnbi.us.dnb.com/standards/schema/patchv2-2.0.2.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://patchv2.dnbgp.dnb.com/schema/2.0.0 http://ci-dnbi.us.dnb.com/standards/schema/patchv2-2.0.2.xsd">
   <patchEntry>
      <patchVersion>RT60.2NA2A</patchVersion>
   </patchEntry>
        ...
</patchList>

Can someone helps me to change the transformation so it will keep the patchv2: bit? Thank you.....

samjudson · July 9th, 2012, 08:39 AM

Does <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/> not do the indenting for you (perhaps alongside a <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> instruction). Trying to manually output significant whitespace like this is fraught with issues.

As for the error you are seeing - xsl:copy should copy namespaces, so what you are reporting doesn't tally with what I see when I try it.

kinka-dzs · July 9th, 2012, 09:31 AM

thank you samjudson,

you are right, when applying the transformation by itself (let's say in netbeans) the nodes names persists and are correct. So i guess the problem is because i am applying the stylesheet in my java code....

Going to check that now... thanks again.