I'm writing an XSLT transform where I'd like all namespace prefixes to be defined on the root element. By default MS seems to create a new prefix definition on the first element in the XML hierarchy to use that schema; meaning the same schema may be referenced on multiple elements should those elements not be related to a shared ancestor of the same schema.
By coding the root element as such, all works as desired:
<!-- ... -->
<ns0:root xmlns:ns0="http://some/schema" xmlns:ns1 = "http://another/schema">
<!-- rest of XSLT; including calls to other templates -->
</ns0:root>
<!-- ... -->
However I can't find any way to code this using xsl:element
; e.g.
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:ns0="http://some/schema"
xmlns:ns1 = "http://another/schema"
>
<!-- ... -->
<xsl:element name="ns0:root">
<xsl:attribute name="ns1" namespace="http://www.w3.org/2000/xslns/">http://another/schema</xsl:attribute>
<!-- rest of XSLT; including calls to other templates -->
</xsl:element>
<!-- ... -->
Is it possible to declare namespace prefixes against an xls:element
for schemas other than that element itself?
XML
<Demo xmlns="http://some/schema">
<a>Hello</a>
<b>World</b>
</Demo>
XSLT
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:ns0="http://some/schema"
xmlns:ns1 = "http://another/schema"
exclude-result-prefixes="xsl"
>
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" version="1.0"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="/*">
<xsl:element name="{name(.)}" namespace="{namespace-uri(.)}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/ns0:Demo/ns0:a">
<xsl:element name="ns1:z">
<xsl:value-of select="./text()" />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/ns0:Demo/ns0:b">
<xsl:element name="ns1:y">
<xsl:value-of select="./text()" />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Result
<Demo xmlns="http://some/schema">
<ns1:z xmlns:ns1="http://another/schema">Hello</ns1:z>
<ns1:y xmlns:ns1="http://another/schema">World</ns1:y>
</Demo>
Desired Result
<Demo xmlns="http://some/schema" xmlns:ns1="http://another/schema">
<ns1:z>Hello</ns1:z>
<ns1:y>World</ns1:y>
</Demo>
or
<ns0:Demo xmlns:ns0="http://some/schema" xmlns:ns1="http://another/schema">
<ns1:z>Hello</ns1:z>
<ns1:y>World</ns1:y>
</ns0:Demo>
Your minimal example doesn't explain why you need to use xsl:element
instead of xsl:copy
and/or literal result elements but as XSLT 1.0 has no xsl:namespace
instruction (https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#creating-namespace-nodes) your only way is copying the namespace node from the stylesheet root, as in
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:ns0="http://some/schema"
xmlns:ns1 = "http://another/schema"
exclude-result-prefixes="xsl"
>
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" version="1.0"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="/*">
<xsl:element name="{name(.)}" namespace="{namespace-uri(.)}">
<xsl:copy-of select="document('')/*/namespace::*[. = 'http://another/schema']"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/ns0:Demo/ns0:a">
<xsl:element name="ns1:z">
<xsl:value-of select="./text()" />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/ns0:Demo/ns0:b">
<xsl:element name="ns1:y">
<xsl:value-of select="./text()" />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
(or any other node having that, such as parameter or variable, but that way you additionally might to convert a result tree fragment to a node set first with exsl:node-set
or ms:node-set
).
As for why literal result elements and xsl:element
give you different results, well, https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#literal-result-element says:
The created element node will also have a copy of the namespace nodes that were present on the element node in the stylesheet tree ...
while https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Creating-Elements-with-xsl:element does not say that.