XSLT -> Blank xmlns=

XSLT -> Blank xmlns="" after Transform

I'm using an XSLT to transform from one XML standard to another. The particular resulting XML standard contains a root element which is part of a namespace and a child node which is part of another namepsace.

The transform successfully reflects these namespaces but the child's child now contains a blank xmlns attribute. How can I prevent this xmlns=""???

XSLT Snippet:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        <_RETURN_TO_PARTY _UnparsedName="" _StreetAddress="" _StreetAddress2="" _City="" _State="" _PostalCode="" />                                                          

Source XML:

Resulting XML:

Answer by Jim Garrison for XSLT -> Blank xmlns="" after Transform

This is happening because PRIA_DOCUMENT is in the default namespace, while its parent DOCUMENT_RECORDATION is in a non-default namespace. You must put the PRIA_DOCUMENT in the same namespace as its parent, otherwise the serializer is required to generate xmlns="".

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See Michael Kay's "XSLT 2.0 and XPATH 2.0, 4th edition", page 475 where he discusses this exact situation.

Answer by alan for XSLT -> Blank xmlns="" after Transform

I found a solution that worked, though it may not have been the most efficient way to achieve the desired results.

I simply changed all literal element declarations to:

and declared the namespace. The resulting xslt is as follows:

name="TRANSACTION_INFO" namespace="http://aptitudesolutions.com">

Answer by Flynn1179 for XSLT -> Blank xmlns="" after Transform

You're re-defining the default namespace with each of those nodes with the 'xmlns=' declaration. Because the PRIA_DOCUMENT doesn't have a namespace, the output needs to redeclare it as empty, or it would have the same namespace as it's parent. I'd recommend adding in a named namespace to those elements that have one defined, for example:

and

With these named namespaces in place, the blank declaration on the PRIA_DOCUMENT element becomes unnecessary, and is not added.

Answer by Jazz for XSLT -> Blank xmlns="" after Transform

Put the calling template and the applied template in the same namespace.

Answer by Dan675 for XSLT -> Blank xmlns="" after Transform

I was having a similar issue even declaring the namespace on the child elements but was still ending up with

xmlns=""  

I thought it was due to the xslt transformation but the string result of the transform was correct and it was when I then transformed the string to a org.w3c.dom.Document that the default namespaces were being added.

Making the DocumentBuilderFactory namespace aware fixed this

DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();  dbf.setNamespaceAware(true);  DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();  Document metadataDOM = db.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(stringWriter.toString().getBytes()));  

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