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Hi there.

I am working with lom metadata and I am a little confused with how to
form the following xml element:

<lom xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsmd_v1p2"
xmlnssi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsmd_v1p2
imsmd_v1p2p2.xsd"/>

I have the following so far:

<xsl:element name="lom">
<xsl:attribute namespace="xmlns"
name="xsi">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:element>

but it creates some very strange results. Does anyone know how I could go
about forming this tag? I know I could do it withou xsl:element, but I'd
like to do everything by the books.

Any help would be greatly appretiated.

Cheers!

...jordan willms

(Jordan Willms) writes:

> Hi there.
>
> I am working with lom metadata and I am a little confused with how to
> form the following xml element:
>
> <lom xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsmd_v1p2"
> xmlnssi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsmd_v1p2
> imsmd_v1p2p2.xsd"/>
>
> I have the following so far:
>
> <xsl:element name="lom">
> <xsl:attribute namespace="xmlns"
> name="xsi">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</xsl:attribute>
>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:element>
>
> but it creates some very strange results.

actually you shouldn't get a result at all, it is a syntax error to try
to generate an attribute with name xmlns. XML namespace declarations
are not attributes as far as Xpath is concerned, they can't be generated
with xsl:attribute, they don't show up if you select @*.

Just generate the attribute that you need (xsi:schemaLocation) any
needed xml namespace declarations will be generated automatically.

> Does anyone know how I could go
> about forming this tag? I know I could do it withou xsl:element, but I'd
> like to do everything by the books.

Not sure what you mean by "by the books" I'd expect most xslt books to
advise thatyou don't need to use xsl:attribute or xsl:element unless you
need to generate the element or attribute names dynamically.
The main idea of xslt is that the templates should look like a
"template" for part of your result document, so it would b emore natural
to just use the form you give at the top rather than using xsl:element.

>
> Any help would be greatly appretiated.
>
> Cheers!
>
> ..jordan willms

David

In article < >,
Jordan Willms <> wrote:

>I know I could do it withou xsl:element, but I'd
>like to do everything by the books.

By what book? There is no good reason to use xsl:element when you
could use a literal result element. You're just making life
unnecessarily complicated.

-- Richard