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Re: deep "copy-of" a source fragment
Dave, you rock the house, baby!
I had actually tried the namespace declaration before but I had gotten
it wrong.
The HTML Tidy program outputs an [unqualified?] xmlns attribute
(declaration) in the <html> root element so the namespace is "html".
When I declared this in my the <xsl:stylesheet> root element *as you
suggested* then xalan knew what the hell I was refering to by html:body
and then behaved as expected.
The source document element looks like this...
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
My stylesheet looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:copy-of select="/html:html/html:body/node()"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I was careful to get an exact match on the URI for the namespace
declarations between the source document and the stylesheet. **
QUESTION(S):
what is the deal with "where" you declare the namespace? Does it matter?
Must I do all my declarations in the root element?
If not, must I do all my declarations in the root stylesheet element if
I want the XSL processor to match against them?
** My only concern is that if for whatever reason the namespace
declaration changes, it will [silently] "break" my XSL templates. So
maybe I will take the easy way out and suppress namespace declarations
in my xhtml source reducing it to an anonymous well-formed document
which is xhtml by convention (rather than validity).
David Carlisle wrote:
match="/html/body/"
probably there are no elements called html or body
Tidy probably wrote th eelements in the xhtml namespace. A namespace is
part of teh name of an element, so you'll need
match="/h:html/h:body/"
and xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; to declare the h prefix on
your xsl:stylesheet element.
David
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