Re: [xsl] Removing namespaces from source document (long)

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism at maden dot org>]

At 15:46 7/4/02, Stephen Ng wrote:
>I have some (unused) namespace declarations in my source xml document that I
>want to banish.
>
>But if I do:
>
><xsl:template match="/">
>   <xsl:apply-templates mode="copy"/>
></xsl:template>
>
>plus her template, I get the same results:  bad-ns is still declared.  Am I
>misunderstanding her example?

I think so.  XSLT 1.0 §7.5 says:

>The xsl:copy element provides an easy way of copying the current node. 
>Instantiating the xsl:copy element creates a copy of the current node. The 
>namespace nodes of the current node are automatically copied as well, but 
>the attributes and children of the node are not automatically copied. The 
>content of the xsl:copy element is a template for the attributes and 
>children of the created node; the content is instantiated only for nodes 
>of types that can have attributes or children (i.e. root nodes and element 
>nodes).

So when you copy <root>, the namespace nodes for "good" and "bad" are 
copied along with it.  Your later attempt is the right approach, though I'm 
as surprised as you that re-creating a namespaced element is this 
difficult.  It really ought to be possible to copy a document using 
<xsl:element> and <xsl:attribute>, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

~Chris
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