Re: xml namespace

/ "Mridula Mahadevan" <mridula.mahadevan@demandtec.com>(by way of Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>) was heard to say:
|      I am conversant with xml/xsl hence this question.
| I am trying to generate a html file from my xml using xsl and
| javax.xml.transform.transformer class. When i include the namespace in
| the xml root node (uri) i dont get any xml but if i dont include the
| html is generated according to the xsl. Is there a way i can force the
| transformer to not validate the uri?

No, but you can probably change the match patterns in your stylesheet.
Given:

  <document xmlns="urn:publicid:-:Norman+Walsh:Whatever:EN">
    <para/>
  </document>

you may be surprised that the following template will not match the
para in the preceding document, *regardless* of the default namespace
of your stylesheet:

  <xsl:template match="para">
    ...
  </xsl:template>

Instead, you must provide a QName with a prefix:

  <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:my="urn:publicid:-:Norman+Walsh:Whatever:EN"
                  xmlns:xsl="..."
                  ...>

  <xsl:template match="my:para">
    ...
  </xsl:template>

If the problem is more complex than that, you'll probably have to post
a little more context for us.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

P.S. This is really an XSLT question and probably belongs on another list.

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XML Standards Architect | comes alone.
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Received on Saturday, 3 August 2002 10:09:04 UTC