aVianditasus
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I have an xml document that is structured somewhat like this :- \[code\]<catalog xmlns="format_old" xmlns:final="format_new"> <final:book> <final:title>blah</final:title> <final:author>more blah</final:author> </final:book> <book> <description title="blah2"/> <writer name="more blah2"/> </book></catalog>\[/code\]Obviously, this is a simplified version of the problem. What I want to do is to convert this into something like :- \[code\]<catalog xmlns="format_new"> <book> <title>blah</title> <author>more blah</author> </book> <book> <title>blah2</title> <author>more blah2</author> </book></catalog>\[/code\]The stylesheet that I have right now is something like this :- \[code\]<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns
rig="format_old" xmlns="format_new"/><xsl:template match="@*|node()"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" /> </xsl:copy></xsl:template><xsl:template match="//orig:book"> <xsl:element name="title"> <xsl:value-of select="./orig:description/@title" /> </xsl:element> <xsl:element name="author"> <xsl:value-of select="./orig:writer/@name" /> </xsl:element></xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet>\[/code\]This gives me an output like :- \[code\]<catalog xmlns="format_old"> <book xmlns="format_new"> <title>blah</title> <author>more blah</author> </book> <book xmlnsrig="format_old" xmlns="format_new"> <title>blah2</title> </author>more blah2</author> </book></catalog>\[/code\]There are two problems with this stylesheet :- 1.) (major issue) The root element gets copied over rather than changing the default namespace of the root element. So basically the catalog element would still be in the namespace format_old. 2.) (minor issue) This will convert the elements as :- \[code\]<book xmlnsrig="format_old" xmlns="format_new"> ...</book>\[/code\]instead of picking up the namespace from the root element as keeping it as \[code\]<book> ...</book>\[/code\]What am I missing here?
rig="format_old" xmlns="format_new"/><xsl:template match="@*|node()"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" /> </xsl:copy></xsl:template><xsl:template match="//orig:book"> <xsl:element name="title"> <xsl:value-of select="./orig:description/@title" /> </xsl:element> <xsl:element name="author"> <xsl:value-of select="./orig:writer/@name" /> </xsl:element></xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet>\[/code\]This gives me an output like :- \[code\]<catalog xmlns="format_old"> <book xmlns="format_new"> <title>blah</title> <author>more blah</author> </book> <book xmlnsrig="format_old" xmlns="format_new"> <title>blah2</title> </author>more blah2</author> </book></catalog>\[/code\]There are two problems with this stylesheet :- 1.) (major issue) The root element gets copied over rather than changing the default namespace of the root element. So basically the catalog element would still be in the namespace format_old. 2.) (minor issue) This will convert the elements as :- \[code\]<book xmlnsrig="format_old" xmlns="format_new"> ...</book>\[/code\]instead of picking up the namespace from the root element as keeping it as \[code\]<book> ...</book>\[/code\]What am I missing here?