Re: [xml-dev] Expert's advice needed about XML Schema and definingsome kind of relation

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net>]

A. Belkin wrote:

> I am new to the Forum and I am new in xml field. Please, I need your help.
> I need to copy copying the namespace attributes in the  XML file referencing
> schema. 
> Here is part of my input file:
> The root element in the input xml file has namespace attributes
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";  and
> xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://ABC/xmlschemas/ABC.xsd";. I do not have
> a problem to copy an attribute xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation to the output
> xml file, but I can not copy xmlns:xsi. How it should be done in the
> stylesheet? Please, help!
> 

Questions about xslt issues are best asked on the Mulberry xslt 
discussion list at

http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list

The reason you cannot "copy" the namespace declaration is that 
technically it is not an attribute in the xpath model, so an attempt to 
"copy" a namespace declaration as an attribute cannot succeed.  However, 
you need only to declare the namespace in the xslt stylesheet - you can 
put the declaration into the xsl:stylesheet element.   So just add

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";

to the namespace declarations in the stylesheet element and all should 
be well.

Cheers,

Tom P