how do you create an xml element attribute with a namespace

[sqad]

<JiraJelly
xmlns:jira="jel ly:com.atlassia n.jira.jelly.en terprise.JiraTa gLib">
....something
</JiraJelly>

Anyone know how to create this xml tag using the xsl:element? Having a
problem with the "xmlns:jira " namespace part...parser hates that.

Thanks,
sqad

[Joe Kesselman]

sqad wrote:

<JiraJelly
xmlns:jira="jel ly:com.atlassia n.jira.jelly.en terprise.JiraTa gLib">
...something
</JiraJelly>

Anyone know how to create this xml tag using the xsl:element?

1) Why are you using xsl:element rather than a literal result element or
xsl:copy, which are always simpler unless you need to calculate the
element name?

2) If you really must do so... Explicitly issuing namespace declaration
nodes in specific places usingXSLT 1.0 is unfortunately rather awkward.
You can't use xsl:attribute, since namespace declarations are not
considered attributes by the XPath Data Model which XSLT is based on.
About the only way I know of to do this is to copy the desired namespace
node off a node that happens to carry that definition. (XSLT 2.0 fixes
this by providing an explicit directive for the purpose, but there still
aren't many processors available which support 2.0.)

See some of the related discussion in
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N...tml#d7594e1318

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[David Carlisle]

sqad wrote:

<JiraJelly
xmlns:jira="jel ly:com.atlassia n.jira.jelly.en terprise.JiraTa gLib">
...something
</JiraJelly>

As has been said, why use xsl:element rather than something like
<xsl:template match="whatever ">
<JiraJelly
xmlns:jira="jel ly:com.atlassia n.jira.jelly.en terprise.JiraTa gLib">
<xsl:apply-templates/>....
</JiraJelly>
</xsl:template>

or more commonly, put the namespace declaration on the xsl:stylesheet
element. the main reason for using xsl:element rather than this literal
result syntax (apart from the ability to generate the element name
dynamically) is that xsl:element _avoids_ copying namepsace nodes, which
is exactly what you don't want to happen here.

David

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