Question

Removing XHTML namespace

Asked by: xmldudeus

I have the following XHTML:

 <html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" w2x:generator-version="1.0" xmlns:w2x="urn:schemas-docsoft-com:word-to-xml:extensions">
  <head>
  <title />
  <title>Corporate Profile</title>
  </head>
  <body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" w2x:class="w2x_style_10000">
...
</body>
</html>

That is generated from software we have that converts Word to XML. I have written a custom XSLT to add the XML processing instruction, but I cannot find a way of removing the XHTML namespace. Here is my XSLT:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
     xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
     exclude-result-prefixes="h">

     <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="iso-8859-1" indent="yes"
               omit-xml-declaration="no" />

<xsl:template match="h:html">
<doc>
<xsl:copy-of select="*" />
</doc>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The output I get is:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
  <doc>
  <head xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <title />
  <title>Corporate Profile</title>
  </head>
  <body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" xp_0:class="w2x_style_10000" xmlns:xp_0="urn:schemas-docsoft-com:word-to-xml:extensions" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

I need to get rid of the xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" namespace. Please help.

XML Dude

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2003-03-03 at 08:34:10ID20536628
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Extensible HTML (XHTML)

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Answers

 

by: BigRatPosted on 2003-03-04 at 05:16:29ID: 8064021

The problem is the xsl:copy-of instruction. Try adding the attribute copy-namespaces = "no". You may find however that namespace fixup causes them to reappear. If this is the case you are going to have to match every element in the source tree and create a new element in the output tree.

 

by: chabaudPosted on 2003-03-04 at 05:20:09ID: 8064037

I have not test it, but you could try to exclude the default namespace adding #default in the exclude list like this:

exclude-result-prefixes="h #default"

EC.

 

by: xmldudeusPosted on 2003-03-04 at 06:10:40ID: 8064334

Neither of these worked. I really didn't want to match each element, but I may have to. Any other ideas?

 

by: BigRatPosted on 2003-03-05 at 03:20:02ID: 8070852

The problem is that the XSL namespace fixup is very strict about setting such things. The "exclude-result" operation only supresses effectively unused namespace declarations on output. Other than matching each occurence, I see no way of getting rid of it.

One minor point, you specify an output encoding of iso-8859-1 but you have got utf-8. Is that correct?

 

by: xmldudeusPosted on 2003-03-05 at 06:38:34ID: 8072033

Yeah, that is correct about the utf-8. Do you know why?

 

by: BigRatPosted on 2003-03-05 at 06:48:23ID: 8072112

No, you clearly specifiy iso. Are you using MSXML or something else? Do you get the indenting?

TZry also to get rid of the other redundant namespaces (well I assume they are redundant) like v,o,w and st1.

Incidentally, the output looks suspiciously like HTML so why is the output method set to xml?

 

by: xmldudeusPosted on 2003-03-05 at 06:59:04ID: 8072201

This is output from some very cool software we use called "W2XML" - we use it to convert our Word docs to XML. It has some other XSLTs to convert the output to other types of XML, (such as Docbook), but I was trying to keep the standard output and just put an XML processing instruction at the top (the standard output is XHTML from this software) - trying to create my own XSLT to use with the software.

There is indentation, but I am not sure it is a result of MSXML or not. MSXML is not a requirement of the software, but it does require the .NET Framework, which I think inherently uses MSXML.

 

by: BigRatPosted on 2003-03-05 at 07:14:23ID: 8072320

DocSoft! And the transform (Adds XML processing instruction and removes HTML wrapper from standard output) from xmldudeus. And of course uses the MS XML object.

They actually say on their web site that namespaces should be removed manually, however I think you are going to have to match every "html" node and make a new one. At least you can upload the transform to the DocSoft web site for everybody else!

 

by: xmldudeusPosted on 2003-03-05 at 07:18:27ID: 8072349

Yeah - I will upload it when I finish it. Thanks for your help, BigRat!

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