schemaLocation attribute dropped after XSL transformation

[John (archive)]

I have an input document that contains a large base64 encoded document. This document also declares a schema location in the root element. I want to write an XSL stylesheet that makes an exact copy (including the namespace and schema location) of the input document except that it removes the base64 encoding and replaces it with the text 'REMOVED'.

I have a stylesheet that does just that except that it drops the schemaLocation attribute. Where that attribute is supposed to be I get a ="" which then gives me an error when I parse the result because it is not well formed XML.

I am using Xalan (not sure of the version) on Solaris with Java 1.3.1 on SunOS 5.8

Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks much,
-John

INPUT DOCUMENT:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<abcocumentInfo xmlns:abc="http://abc.com/schema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://abc.com/schema abc.xsd "> <BunchOfElements>....</BunchOfElements> <Attachment Encoding="BASE64" FileType="PDF">biglongbase64stringgoeshere</Attachment> </abcocumentInfo>

XSL STYLESHEET:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:abc="http://www.abc.com/schema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="1.0"> <xslutput indent='yes' encoding='UTF-8' method='xml'/> <xsl:template match="/abc:TitleInfo"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="Attachment" priority="10"> <Attachment> <xsl:attribute name="Encoding"><xsl:value-of select="./@Encoding" /></xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="FileType"><xsl:value-of select="./@FileType" /></xsl:attribute> <xsl:text>REMOVED</xsl:text> </Attachment> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="@*|node" priority="1"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

OUTPUT:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<abcocumentInfo xmlns:abc="http://abc.com/schema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" =""> <BunchOfElements>....</BunchOfElements> <Attachment xmlns:abc="http://www.abc.com/schema" Encoding="BASE64" FileType="PDF">REMOVED</Attachment> </abcocumentInfo>

 

[Bob Foster]

I don't see you are doing anything wrong. Here is what I got running your document and stylesheet through Saxon 7.5.2:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<abcocumentInfo xmlns:abc="http://abc.com/schema" xsi:schemaLocation="http://abc.com/schema abc.xsd " xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<BunchOfElements>....</BunchOfElements>

<Attachment Encoding="BASE64" FileType="PDF"
xmlns:abc="http://www.abc.com/schema">REMOVED</Attachment> </abcocumentInfo>

I assume this is pretty much what you expected.

Bob Foster