David:

Thank you for your response and time.

What you write makes sense to me and gives me a path to a solution that will
work for us.

I had hoped for a more generic solution because we are working with
arbitrary schema.  So, for example, the a, b, c in my example could be x, y,
z . . . or any other combination.  This having been said, what you wrote
gives me an idea on how we can create something that will work for us.

In particular, I was not aware of the following, which is very helpful:

> by using a literal element here you will get teh namespace nodes from
> the stylesheet which you wouldn't get if you used xsl:element or
> xsl:copy

Thanks very much,

Todd



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Transforming Locally Declared Namespaces into Globally
Declared Namespaces


>
> In theory all these things are equivalent according to the namespace rec
> and so equivalent in the XPath data model and so you can not _force_
> that xslt writes things one way or another: you coul just write an
> identity transform and find that your XSLT system changes your document
> from one style to the other.
>
> that said, most systems don't arbitrarily change namespace prefixing
> style just because they can, and do go to some effort to preserve what
> they devine to be the author intention,
>
> so first of all you want to get some namespace nodes on to the top level
> document element (this will _force_ namespace declarations of these
> prefixes in the output, what you can't actually uses these prefixes).
> easiest way of doing that is to declare them in the stylesheet.
>
> <xsl:stylesheet ...
>   xmlns:a="urn:a" xmlns:b="urn:b" xmlns:c="urn:c">
>
>
> then in for your top level element
> <xsl:template match="/a:a">
>   <a:a>
>      <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>   </a:a>
> </xsl:template>
>
> by using a literal element here you will get teh namespace nodes from
> the stylesheet which you wouldn't get if you used xsl:element or
> xsl:copy
>
> for everything else you want to force a prefix so
>
> <xsl:template match="a:*">
>  <xsl:element name="a:{local-name()}">
>     <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>  </xsl:element>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="b:*">
>  <xsl:element name="b:{local-name()}">
>     <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>  </xsl:element>
> </xsl:template>
>
> etc.
>
> David
>
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