XSL transform trying to be smarter?

[Wizfrog]

Hello,

I am using XSL to transform a XML file into a HTML output.
classic

so, I have a tag calling an image with a local path as

<img src="images/myimage.jpg"/>

nothing really strange here...

I am just surprised to see that the output includes the FULL path to
the image.
so, XSL first is able to figure out that my img tag is an html tag and
put in the full path there.

it makes for a HUGE src field, and since I am generating an output
with several images for each field, and hundreds of fields, it's just
slow.
i am thinking that all this extra text in the HTML just makes it
heavier to handle, and just wish to use the simpler local path.

Why is XSL generating the full path like this? How do I get around
this?

other thing i found out is that it keeps inserting attributes like:

xmlns:td="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" all over the place in
my <div>

I tried to use <xsl:element name="div"instead of just <divbut it
didn't help.

any idea?

thanks for help!

[Wizfrog]

I'm printing the output in the browser into a TEXTAREA container. Note
that I'm using local file here.

I was doing this because as I dump the output in a div, the divs next
to it get moved around, which does not happen if I just dump text. I
thought the xsl output may be malformed, but it's fine, except for all
the added junk.

I'm not sure I am familiar enough with the namespace stuff.
what is xmlns:dt about? it shows up in the IMG tag

my 1st tag is already:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/
Transform" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes">

so why would it need to show up again? should I try version="2.0" ?

[Joe Kesselman]

Joe Kesselman wrote:

>other thing i found out is that it keeps inserting attributes like:
xmlns:td="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" all over the place in
my <div>

I forgot to add that you may also want to play with the
exclude-result-prefixes directive, if you're sure the prefix is not
being used in your output tree (including in text content such as
XPaths). See discussion at

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#literal-result-element

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[Wizfrog]

got it. thanks

what is dt for anyway? (I assume datatype) but what does it mean?

I guess I used the header from somewhere else and didn't realize this
was there.

when should i have to use the dt namespace?