I'd like to take data from some XML files and transform them into a new XML document. However, I do not want the definition of a namespace in the XSLT to occur in the result document.
In other words:
source:
<Namespace:Root xmlns:Namespace="http://www.something.com">
stylesheet:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:Namespace="http://www.something.com">
result:
<resultRoot xmlns:Namespace="http://www.something.com">
<!--I don't want the Namespace definition above-->
I am using msxsl for the transformation.
You can use the exclude-result-prefixes
attribute of the xsl:stylesheet
element to avoid emitting namespace prefixes into the output document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:prefix1="http://www.something.com"
exclude-result-prefixes="prefix1">
</xsl:stylesheet>
To suppress multiple namespaces from the output document specify them separated by whitespace:
exclude-result-prefixes="prefix1 prefix2 prefix3"
From the XSLT specification:
When a stylesheet uses a namespace declaration only for the purposes of addressing the source tree, specifying the prefix in the exclude-result-prefixes attribute will avoid superfluous namespace declarations in the result tree.