Re: [xsl] suppress soap namespace?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman at CraneSoftwrights dot com>]

At 2002-07-30 08:52 -0600, Paul Coleman wrote:
[a posting answered last night on XML-DEV ... my answer is posted here for 
the benefit of readers of this mail list]
> I have a soap input document as follows:
> ...
> I am trying get just the soap body elements out via XSLT, but I always get
> the soap ns on the justiceXML element (the first body element).  My style
> sheet is as follows:
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform
> exclude-result-prefixes="soap-env">
> <xsl:output method="xml" />
>   <xsl:template match="justiceXML">
>   <xsl:copy-of select="." />
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> ...
> Question:  is there a way to supress the soap namespace from the output?
Yes, by regenerating all elements found that are not in the soap namespace, 
because all elements in the instance have attached namespace nodes from all 
ancestral namespace declarations and your stylesheet's act of copying the 
elements from the source node tree to the result node tree is carrying 
along the unwanted namespace nodes.

> Using  exclude-result-prefixes doesn't make any difference.
... by definition.  The attribute exclude-result-prefixes= only prunes 
unwanted namespace nodes from the stylesheet node tree, not from the source 
node tree.

The example solution below will work with any soap-env:Body children, and 
will not be tied to a particular body content.

I hope this helps.

................... Ken

T:\ftemp>type paul.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap-env:Envelope
xmlns:soap-env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";>
<soap-env:Header/>
<soap-env:Body>
  <justiceXML>
  <documentDescriptor type="request" class="OTrackNameListRequest"/>
  <payload>
    <person>
      <personName>
        <firstName>MICHAEL</firstName>
        <lastName>MOLEN</lastName>
      </personName>
      <personDescription>
        <sex>Male</sex>
        <birthDate>1910-08-01</birthDate>
      </personDescription>
    </person>
  </payload>
</justiceXML>
</soap-env:Body>
</soap-env:Envelope>

T:\ftemp>type paul.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                xmlns:soap-env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";
                exclude-result-prefixes="soap-env"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="soap-env:Envelope/soap-env:Body/node()"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*"> <!--synthesize element with the input name-->
  <xsl:element name="{name(.)}" namespace="{namespace-uri(.)}">
    <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\ftemp>xt paul.xml paul.xsl paul.out

T:\ftemp>type paul.out
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

  <justiceXML>
  <documentDescriptor type="request" class="OTrackNameListRequest"/>
  <payload>
    <person>
      <personName>
        <firstName>MICHAEL</firstName>
        <lastName>MOLEN</lastName>
      </personName>
      <personDescription>
        <sex>Male</sex>
        <birthDate>1910-08-01</birthDate>
      </personDescription>
    </person>
  </payload>
</justiceXML>

T:\ftemp>rem Done!


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