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POConsolidate xmlns attributes to the root element?
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    copied!<p>I'm converting a set of XML documents from one format, which doesn't include namespace prefixes, to another, which does. Everything is relatively straightforward, but it's a bit repetitive in the XMLNS output. Below is an example.</p> <h3>(Very Simple) Input XML</h3> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt; &lt;a/&gt; </code></pre> <h3>XSLT</h3> <pre><code>&lt;!-- xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" --&gt; &lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:a="urn:data.test-a" xmlns:b="urn:data.test-b" xmlns:c="urn:data.test-c" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:local.test schema/test.xsd" version="1.0"&gt; &lt;xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" /&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="/a"&gt; &lt;xsl:element name="a:test-a"&gt; &lt;!-- attempted fix --&gt; &lt;xsl:copy-of select="namespace::*"/&gt; &lt;!-- is there a better way to get this in there? --&gt; &lt;xsl:attribute name="xsi:schemaLocation"&gt;urn:local.test schema/test.xsd&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt; &lt;xsl:element name="b:test-b"&gt; &lt;xsl:element name="c:test-c"&gt;content&lt;/xsl:element&gt; &lt;/xsl:element&gt; &lt;/xsl:element&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt; </code></pre> <h3>Output</h3> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt; &lt;a:test-a xmlns:a="urn:data.test-a" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:local.test schema/test.xsd"&gt; &lt;b:test-b xmlns:b="urn:data.test-b"&gt; &lt;c:test-c xmlns:c="urn:data.test-c"&gt;content&lt;/c:test-c&gt; &lt;c:test-c xmlns:c="urn:data.test-c"&gt;content&lt;/c:test-c&gt; &lt;/b:test-b&gt; &lt;b:test-b xmlns:b="urn:data.test-b"&gt; &lt;c:test-c xmlns:c="urn:data.test-c"&gt;content&lt;/c:test-c&gt; &lt;c:test-c xmlns:c="urn:data.test-c"&gt;content&lt;/c:test-c&gt; &lt;/b:test-b&gt; &lt;/a:test-a&gt; </code></pre> <h3>Desired Output</h3> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt; &lt;a:test-a xmlns:a="urn:data.test-a" xmlns:b="urn:data.test-b" xmlns:c="urn:data.test-c" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:local.test schema/test.xsd"&gt; &lt;b:test-b&gt; &lt;c:test-c&gt;content&lt;/c:test-c&gt; &lt;c:test-c&gt;content&lt;/c:test-c&gt; &lt;/b:test-b&gt; &lt;b:test-b&gt; &lt;c:test-c&gt;content&lt;/c:test-c&gt; &lt;c:test-c&gt;content&lt;/c:test-c&gt; &lt;/b:test-b&gt; &lt;/a:test-a&gt; </code></pre> <p>Basically, I want to consolidate the namespace attributes into the root element. I've been doing some research and I thought I had this locked up using as seen <a href="http://lenzconsulting.com/namespaces-in-xslt/#xslt_1_0__copying_namespace_nodes_using_the_namespace_axis" rel="nofollow">here</a>. But, it's not having the desired effect; I assume I'm either using it incorrectly or am restricted by xsltproc's capabilities.</p> <p>Performing a second pass to clean up the XMLNS entries would be a fine solution as well.</p> <p>Also, in case it restricts a solution, I think my environment will be limited to XSLT 1.0.</p> <p>Thanks for any tips.</p> <p>PS. A smaller question is if there's a better way to get that schemaLocation attribute in the output, but that's minor.</p>
 

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