[oXygen-user] How to switch off automatic generation of attributes in XSL [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

21 Jan 2009

      Hi,

My friend and colleague sent me some XSL which he asked me to validate the output XML.  The output includes namespaces for the XSDs but also some of the namespaces that he used for functions that generated some of the element content. For example, xmlns:util="java:java.util.UUID" to generate a UUID for the gmd:fileIdentifier element. If he removes these namespaces from the XSL of course the transformation fails. If he includes them the transformation is successful but I don't see how to get rid of the namespaces and attributes for the unwanted namespaces in the output XML.

For example I don't want the xmlns:dif, xmlns:fn, xmlns:util namespaces as attributes in the root element and I also don't want the xmls:srv attribute in the elements.

How do I get rid of this content?

Thanks.

 John

Here is the head of the XSL:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
   xmlns:gco="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gco"
   xmlns:gmd="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd"
   xmlns:gts="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gts"
   xmlns:gsr="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gsr"
   xmlns:gss="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gss"
   xmlns:gmx="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmx"
   xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
   xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
   xmlns:util="java:java.util.UUID"
   xmlns:dif="http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/Aboutus/xml/dif/"
   xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-functions"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd/gmd.xsd http://www.opengis.net/gml http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gml/gml.xsd http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink http://www.isotc211.org/2005/xlink/xlinks.xsd">

  <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes" media-type="text/plain"/>
  <!--<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> -->

        <!-- MATCH ROOT DIF -->
        <xsl:template match="dif:DIF">

                        <!-- PRINT Dataset HEADER MATERIAL -->
        <gmd:MD_Metadata
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xmlns:gmd="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd"
          xmlns:gco="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gco"
          xmlns:gts="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gts"
          xmlns:gsr="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gsr"
          xmlns:gss="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gss"
          xmlns:gmx="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmx"
          xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd/gmd.xsd
          http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gco http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gco/gco.xsd
          http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gts http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gts/gts.xsd
          http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gsr http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gsr/gsr.xsd
          http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gss http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gss/gss.xsd">

                <gmd:fileIdentifier>
                        <gco:CharacterString>
                                <xsl:variable name="uid" select="util:toString(util:randomUUID())"/>
                                <xsl:value-of select="$uid"/>
                        </gco:CharacterString>
                </gmd:fileIdentifier>

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[oXygen-user] How to switch off automatic generation of attributes in XSL [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

John.Hockaday＠ga.gov.au