Exclude xlmns attribute

sat · August 16th, 2012, 08:07 AM

Hello,

I have the following xsl and xml part and the output...

My issue is that I want to exclude only the xmlns attribute from the output.

Any advices???

XSL

At the beggining
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="1.0">

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="./str[@id='aaa'] !=''">
<xsl:element name="First">
<xsl:value-of select="./str[@id='aaa']"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:when>
<xsltherwise>
<xsl:element name="aaa">
<xsl:attribute name="xsi:nil">true</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>
</xsltherwise>
</xsl:choose>

XML
And a very simple xml file which is like this:

<str id="aaabb"></str>

Result
<First xsi:nil="true" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" />

Expected Result
<First xsi:nil="true"/>

Thank you in advance

joefawcett · August 16th, 2012, 08:23 AM

In your expected result you have:

Code:

<First xsi:nil="true"/>

which uses the nil attribute within the namespace referred to by the xsi prefix (http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance).
So you can't remove the declaration of this namespace mapping from the results.

sat · August 16th, 2012, 09:02 AM

So the result will be as it is and I can change it as expected?

And everytime that you want to extract the xsi:nil="true" you will have also the xmlns:xsl.......???

<First xsi:nil="true" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
</First>

At least do you if there is a solution to have the following:

<First xsi:nil="true" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>

Thanks

joefawcett · August 16th, 2012, 09:35 AM

Sorry, I thought I explained how if you want to use xsi:nil you need to declare the prefix to namespace mapping. I don't really understand what your second post is asking.

sat · August 16th, 2012, 09:49 AM

My problem is that the result is :

<First xsi:nil="true" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
</First>

And I want this:

<First xsi:nil="true" />

Without the 2nd attribute and to close the element in the same tag

I tried Also to do the following in the xsl:

<First xsi:nil="true" />

instead of this:

<xsl:element name="First">
<xsl:attribute name="xsi:nil">true</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>

And the result is:

<First xsi:nil="true" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" />

So now I want only to remove the 2nd attribute...

Thanks

joefawcett · August 16th, 2012, 09:56 AM

Sorry, that can't be done using XSLT because your required result is not well-formed XML. You can get the self-closed element by doing this:

Code:

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="./str[@id='aaa'] !=''">
<xsl:element name="First">
<xsl:value-of select="./str[@id='aaa']"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:when>
<xsltherwise>
<First xsl:nil="true" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

but you can't use xsl:nil attribute without having the

Code:

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

declaration present at least once in the stylesheet.