XSLT doesn't like xmlns?

**Bjoern Hoehrmann** · Jun 27 '08, 07:07 PM

Re: XSLT doesn't like xmlns?

* Boris wrote in comp.text.xml:

>I'm making my first steps with XSLT and run into a problem where I didn't
>find an explanation yet for. Have a look at this very simple XML document
>(DocBook) ...
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test.xslt "?>
><book version="5.0">
<title>Title</title>
></book>
>
>... and another simple XSLT document (test.xslt):
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
><xsl:styleshee t version="1.0"
>xmlns:xsl="htt p://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
><xsl:templat e match="/">
<html><body>
<h1><xsl:valu e-of select="book/title" /></h1>
</body></html>
></xsl:template>
></xsl:stylesheet>
>
>The problem is that if I add xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" to the
>book-element neither my XML editor (XML Notepad 2007) nor my browser
>(Opera 9.26) show the book title anymore. However without xmlns my XML
>editor doesn't know of course where the DocBook tags come from.

You have to declare that namespace and use the prefix to refer to the
elements, for example,

<xsl:styleshe et xmlns:d='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook' ...>
...
<xsl:value-of select="d:book/d:title" />
...

Bare names in XPath 1.0 always refer to an element in no namespace,
if you put them into one using the default namespace declaration, the
names change, but your paths still refer to the old names.
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**Joseph J. Kesselman** · Jun 27 '08, 07:07 PM

Re: XSLT doesn't like xmlns?

XSLT is fully namespace-aware.

The problem is that if I add xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" to
the book-element

By doing so, you have moved that element and all its children which
don't have prefixes into the docbook namespace. (See the XML Namespaces
specification for details, or a good modern XML tutorial.) To select a
namespaced node, XPath and XSLT must explicitly say that this is what
they're doing. Since XSLT 1.0 doesn't support the concept of a default
namespace, you must use prefixes to do this. For example, you could change
<xsl:value-of select="book/title" />
to
<xsl:value-of select="docbook :book/docbook:title"
xmlns:docbook=" http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" />

neither my XML editor (XML Notepad 2007) nor my browser

(Opera 9.26) show the book title anymore. However without xmlns my XML
editor doesn't know of course where the DocBook tags come from.
>
Is this a problem of my tools or XSLT simply doesn't like xmlns? In the
latter case is there any workaround?
>
Boris

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XSLT doesn't like xmlns?

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