XSLT: avoiding unnecessary ns declaration in HTML output

Steffen Beyer · Nov 2, 2004

Hi,

my XSLT processes input documents which use various namespaces. Short
example:

XML input:
<xmlns:news="http://some.example/news"/>

XSLT:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:news="http://some.example/news">

<xsl

utput method="html"/>

<xsl:template match="<html>
<head><title>Demo</title></head>
<body>
<p>Demo</p>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

HTML output:
<html xmlns:news="http://some.example/news">
<head>
<title>Demo</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Demo</p>
</body>
</html>

Now, the "xmlns:news" attribute is neither necessary nor valid HTML.
Using LibXSLT, how can I avoid it?

Regards,

Richard Tobin · Nov 2, 2004

Steffen Beyer said:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:news="http://some.example/news">

Add an exclude-result-prefixes="news" attribute to the stylesheet element.

-- Richard

Steffen Beyer · Nov 2, 2004

On 2 Nov 2004 12:03:57 GMT

Add an exclude-result-prefixes="news" attribute to the stylesheet
element.

That's a step forward, thank you!

Is it possible to let this setting apply to the "xsl:copy-of" element?

Modified example:

XML input:
<xmlns:news="http://some.example/news">
<bar>Demo</bar>
</

XSLT:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:news="http://some.example/news"
exclude-result-prefixes="news">

<xsl

utput method="html"/>

<xsl:template match="<html>
<head><title>Demo</title></head>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="bar">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

HTML output:
<html>
<head>
<title>Demo</title>
</head>
<body>
<bar xmlns:news="http://some.example/news">Demo</bar>
</body>
</html>

Regards,

Richard Tobin · Nov 2, 2004

Add an exclude-result-prefixes="news" attribute to the stylesheet
element.

That's a step forward, thank you!

Is it possible to let this setting apply to the "xsl:copy-of" element?[/QUOTE]

No, it only applies to literal result elements.

I think you have to replace xsl:copy-of with a set of templates that
do the copying. And you can't use xsl:copy for the elements, because
it copies namespace nodes. You would have to use xsl:element to
create an element of the same name.

-- Richard

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