Etienne --
The DOM is explained in the W3C DOM Recommendation. Xerces, used by
Xalan, implements most or all of Level 2, the Core of which you can find
here: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113/core.html
Your attributes don't need to be in a namespace, just the element. The
terms that you've asked about are all defined in the DOM Spec.
I think you'll want something like:
Element xslRoot = (Element)
stylesheet.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";,
"xsl:stylesheet");
xslRoot.setAttributeNS(null, "version", "1.0");
stylesheet.appendChild( xslRoot );
If you're not familiar with namespaces, namespace URIs and namespace
prefixes, you might want to read up on this.
Gary
Etienne Deleflie wrote:
>
> Gary,
>
> There is something about namespaces I have missunderstood, and the documentation
> for doing this stuff (in java) is practically non-existent (or very well hidden).
> Forgive me for my ignorance, but, syntactically, what is the :
>
> namespaceURI
> qualifiedName
> value
>
> required for setAttributeNS ?
>
> This code produces the right XML file (when printed out)..........
>
> Element xslRoot = (Element) stylesheet.createElementNS("test", "xsl:stylesheet");
> xslRoot.setAttributeNS( "test", "version", "1.0");
> xslRoot.setAttributeNS( "test", "xmlns:xsl",
> "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; );
> stylesheet.appendChild( xslRoot );
>
> but still gives me an "attibute: version" is missing error.
>
> etienne.
>
> > Etienne --
> >
> > This is not correct because you are not putting these elements into a
> > namespace. You need to use createElementNS to create an element in the
> > namespace.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > Etienne Deleflie wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > more on this dynamic XSL DOM document creation. Perhaps I am not creating the
> > > DOM document correctly (even though it prints out correctly)
> > >
> > > ........... I am setting both the attributes of the root node (version and
> > > xmlns:xsl)
> > >
> > > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> > >
> > > by doing the following
> > >
> > > // make a root node for the xml Document
> > > Element root = (Element) document.createElement("page");
> > > document.appendChild(root);
> > >
> > > // namespace and version
> > > Element xslRoot = (Element) stylesheet.createElement("xsl:stylesheet");
> > > xslRoot.setAttribute("version", "1.0");
> > > xslRoot.setAttribute("xmlns:xsl", "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";);
> > >
> > > does this seem correct ?
> > >
> > > etienne
