Re: Stripping namespaces from a document

[George Cristian Bina]

Sullivan, Mark E wrote:
Does xerces provide an easy way strip namespaces from an xml DOM document
after it is in memory? I would like to use XPath expressions from the Xalan
distro, but it does not support default namespaces. Unfortunately i do not
have control over the structure of the document, so i cannot change this. 

thanks,
mark
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If you have a default namespace then you can refer to the elements from 
that namespace with Xalan if you put a ":" before the element name. For 
instance

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
version="1.0" xmlns="someNamespace">
   <xsl:template match="/">
       <count-of-element1>
           <xsl:value-of select="count(//:element1)"/>
       </count-of-element1>
   </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

of course you can define a proxy for the namespace and use that, so the 
following stylesheet is equivalent with the previous one:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
version="1.0" xmlns:test="someNamespace">
   <xsl:template match="/">
       <count-of-element1>
           <xsl:value-of select="count(//test:element1)"/>
       </count-of-element1>
   </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Regards,
George
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