[xquery-talk] Omit namespace attributes in output file
Michael Kay
mike at saxonica.com
Wed Apr 19 02:38:31 PDT 2017
XQuery output has to be well-formed (and namespace-well-formed) XML, so you can't output an element name like <ac:emoticon> unless the "ac" prefix is declared and bound to a namespace URI. Why would you want to? Does Confluence really use non-namespace-aware XML?
Michael Kay
Saxonica
> On 19 Apr 2017, at 09:51, xquery at docbook-autor.de wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I’m transforming some DocBook data into an XML file using XQuery. The
> transformation works perfectly so far.
>
> My problem is, that I have to use some confluence namespace tags like
> <ac:emoticon ac:name=“warning” /> in the XML output file.
>
> So I have to declare the respective namespace at the beginning of my
> XQuery file:
>
> ###
> xquery version "1.0" encoding "utf-8";
>
> declare namespace db="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook";
> declare namespace saxon="http://saxon.sf.net/";
> declare namespace ac="https://www.atlassian.com/schema/confluence/6/ac";
>
> declare option saxon:output "version=1.0";
> declare option saxon:output "omit-xml-declaration=yes";
> declare option saxon:output "indent=yes";
> ###
>
> Because of the namespace declaration for "ac" at the beginning the
> transformation results in this:
>
> ###
> <ac:emoticon xmlns:ac="https://www.atlassian.com/schema/confluence/6/ac"
> ac:name="warning"/>
> ###
>
> Without this declaration the transformation stops with an error message
> that a declaration for namespace “ac” is missing.
>
> Is it possible to omit the xmlns:ac attribute somehow?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards
> Michael
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