Re: [xml-dev] Namespace declaration

Hi Christophe, I regard DTD as an anachronism - unrelated to modern XML technology (XSD, XPath, XQuery, XSLT) and without future - which I would avoid.

How about writing a tool with the following functionality:

* input: one or more XML files (e.g. XSLTs)

* optional parameter: $ignore - a whitespace-separated list of prefixes identifying namespaces to be ignored

* optional parameter: $add - a whitespace-separated list of prefix/uri pairs to be added

* optional parameter: $upgrade - an XSLT to be modified, see below

* output:

* if no $upgrade: an empty XSLT document with namespace declarations echoing the namespace declarations of the input files

* if $upgrade: a copy of $upgrade, which has namespace declarations echoing the namespace declarations of the input files

The XPath function fn:in-scope-prefixes() and fn:namespace-uri-for-prefix() allow a straightforward copying of in-scope namespaces.

Kind regards,

Hans

Am Freitag, 26. April 2019, 16:17:16 MESZ hat Christophe Marchand <cmarchand@oxiane.com> Folgendes geschrieben:

Hello !

I have a lot of XSL that process many business documents. Each XSL

declares at least 15 different business namespaces, excluding technical

namespaces (http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform,

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema and so on).

We have problems when creating a new XSL, in copy/paste namespace

declarations, and refactoring (namespace modification) is almost impossible.

So, I'd like to declare namespaces strings as constants, and use these

constants in XSL.

The only way I've found is to declare a DTD with entities, one entity

per namespace :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!ENTITY nsXF "http://www.lefebvre-sarrut.eu/ns/xmlfirst">

<!ENTITY nsAdded "eu:lefebvre-sarrut:mcqueen:publication:added">

<!ENTITY nsXfPub "http://www.lefebvre-sarrut.eu/ns/xmlfirst/publication">

<!ENTITY nsEls "http://www.lefebvre-sarrut.eu/ns/els">

Then, use this DTD in my XSL :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet SYSTEM "../../namespaces.dtd">

<xsl:stylesheet

xmlns:xf="&nsXF;"

xmlns:added="&nsAdded;" ...>

Oxygen have a convinient completion on entities that simplifies declaration.

Am I the only guy to do this ?

Is it a good practise ?

Best regards,

Christophe

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