Have a source xml document that uses namespace containing prefixes and a default namespace. When I transform it using a XSLT doc, the resulting translated xml document is incorrect, that is, element data from the source xml document is missing.
When I remove the "default namespace" from the source xml document, the transformation works as expected.
Question: is there a way to resolve problem without the need to edit out the default namespace from the source xml document? That is, add the solution to the XSLT document.
XML Document:
<MyElement xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns="http://www.zolldata.com/UDX">
where the problem default namespace is xmlns="http://www.zolldata.com/UDX"
Specify same default namespace in XSLT document if your selectors do not use prefixes, or use prefixes for all selectors in the XSLT, but don't forget to bind them to the default namespace of your XML document.
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I loaded an XML file via the "Import XML definition" and everything worked fine. But the XML needs the following added to it
Here is my question,
I just have the XML but not the xsd.
How do I add the xmlns and xsi string into the root node?
For the elements, how do I add the tag like 'common' and 'udf' before the column name like common:abbreviation or udf:name or udf:value?
Basically is there an easy and quick way to do this? Do I need to reimport the files with new xsd?
Thanks
<MyRoot
xmlns:udf="http://www.url.com/xx/XXXX/type1"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:common="http://www.url.com/xx/XXXX/common"
xmlns="http://www.url.com/ws/v410/NewPerson"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.url.com/xx/XXXX/NewPerson NewPerson.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
<common:ID>NNNNNNNNNN</common:ID>
<UDF>
<udf:name>Name Content</udf:name>
<udf:value></udf:value>
</UDF>
</MyRoot>
I've written a post about adding ports to XML transformation. See if this helps: http://powercenternotes.blogspot.com/2013/03/adding-port-to-existing-xml-parser.html
I've created an XSLT stylesheet document. Within this document I create a new XML document as stated below:
...
<CREATE_REQ
xsi:schemaLocation="http://fcubs.ofss.com/service/aServices theService.xsd"
xmlns="http://fcubs.ofss.com/service/aServices"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
...
After transformation (see below) the ordering of the namespaces is different. A normal XML parser can handle this and it is normally no problem. The problem in my case is that the receiving application can't handle this and the order of the namespace may and shouldn't be changed.
<CREATE_REQ xmlns="http://fcubs.ofss.com/service/aServices"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://fcubs.ofss.com/service/aServices theService.xsd">
...
Is there a function or declaration that the namespaces will not be changed?
If the receiving application can't handle it then it needs to be fixed. Whoever wrote it doesn't seem to have grasped what XML is all about. Fix the receiving application, or throw it in the bin where it belongs.
After transformation (see below) the ordering of the namespaces is
different.
No, the ordering is exactly the same. According to the W3C XPath 1.0 Data Model:
The attribute nodes and namespace nodes of an element occur before the children of the element. The namespace nodes are defined to occur before the attribute nodes.
This means that although in the provided XML fragment the attribute xmlns:xsi seems to precede the namespace declarations, in fact it follows them.
Therefore, the produced output doesn't change the ordering of namespaces and attributes of the original XML document.
Producing an XML document where an attribute precedes a namespace node would violate the above quoted definition, therefore a compliant XSLT processor wouldn't produce such a document.
What does a namespace do in XSLT when a url is provided such as:
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
does this attempt to make a connection to the internet?
No; it just so happens that the specification for XML Namespaces (see W3C XSL Namespace specifications) are URI's.
They work in exactly the same way that namespaces in other languages do; they help uniquely identify things with the same names but in different contexts.
You can prove that no attempt is made to retrieve the resource by using a HTTP Monitor on your machine while loading or using the XSL Transformation - this answer has many good suggestions.
No.
Whatever the namespace is in a xsd, an xslt or any other xml file, there is no internet request.
The namespace is used to qualified your xml element.
When you conduct an XSLT transformation, the XSLT engine validates the XSLT file. It performs many checks, such as the root element being named stylesheet, etc. The engine must also be able to discern literal result elements (like <table>) from XSLT-specific elements (like <xsl:stylesheet>).
An element is recognized as XSLT-specific when it resides in the XSLT namespace. The value of the URI you posted (http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform) is simply a convention that makes it clear we're talking about XSLT. The prefix being defined (xsl) is the prefix used in the XSLT file to qualify the XSLT elements. You can use another prefix if you choose, provided you map it to the XSLT namespace.
Note that it's actually just a URI (an identifier), not a URL (a locator). There is no HTTP request to locate anything, it just identifies an abstract concept (in this case "XSLT").
I just added a namespace to my XML document and now my XSLT stylesheet does not work. What do I have to change in XSLT to support namespaces? (I have not yet changed the XSLT file since adding namespaces)
You have to add a xmlns:namespacehere attribute and use the namespace in the appropriate matches and selections.
I need to convert HTML file to iXBRL format. iXBRL format is basically html with some embedded nodes or some information of html file wrapped under ixbrl tags. For this, I will need to SEARCH and REMOVE some nodes from HTML file and WRAP some nodes under iXBRL tags.
I'm not able to use XML DOM as it shoots an exception on content type. .Net htmldocument class doesn't support removing the nodes and replacing them, neither I could see the Save option.
I tried using HTML Agility Pack but It can't find the nodes because of namespaces in the node name and it doesn't have any option to specify namespaces (line namespace manager in .net).
Can I specify namespace in XPATH expression? How?
Can anyone help me in Editing HTML (or XHTML) files using .net or any free library.
If you want to use XPATH with namespaces you just need to prefix the nodes with the right namespace.
If your Namespace looks like this:
xmlns:xbrli="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/instance"
And your Elements are like this:
<root>
<xbrli:elementname></xbrli:elementname>
<root>
Then you can select them in XPATH like:
//xbrli:elementname