[xquery-talk] Generating xhtml from xml in no namespace

Wed Dec 17 15:20:51 PST 2008

Thanks, but I would say neither is a reasonable approach...

I think it's best to leave the xhtml generation to xslt.

2008/12/17 Michael Blakeley <michael.blakeley at marklogic.com>:
> Andrew,
>
> I don't like the '*:foo' shortcut either - it's nice for debugging, but it's
> a red flag when I'm doing code reviews.
>
> The empty-namespace problem is much easier to work around than the earlier
> responses imply. The trick is to understand that every XPath expression
> evaluates in the current scope's default element namespace, but you can
> control the scope's default element namespace.
> http://marklogic.markmail.org/search/?q=namespace turns up some similar
> discussion threads.
>
> I'll use MarkLogic Server 4.0 with cq as the query interface, and start with
> a standalone test case to show the problem:
>
> xquery version "1.0";
>
> declare variable $INPUT as document-node() := document {
> <path>
>  <to><node id="a1">hello andrew</node></to>
> </path>,
> <path>
>  <to><node id="a2">hello world</node></to>
> </path>
> };
>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>  <body>
>  <!-- there should be a span or two here -->
>  {
>     for $x in $INPUT/path/to/node
>     order by $x
>     return element span { text { $x } }
>  }
>  </body>
> </html>
>
> =>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>  <body>
>    <!-- there should be a span or two here -->
>  </body>
> </html>
>
> The result includes no spans, because $INPUT/path/to/node is looking for
> 'path' etc in the xhtml namespace. Now let's try my preferred technique - a
> function call. This test will use a local function, but we could also use a
> library function. Either way, the function body starts with the same default
> element namespace as the XQuery module scope.
>
> xquery version "1.0";
>
> declare variable $INPUT as document-node() := document {
> <path>
>  <to><node id="a1">hello andrew</node></to>
> </path>,
> <path>
>  <to><node id="a2">hello world</node></to>
> </path>
> };
>
> declare function local:get-nodes()
>  as element(node)+
> {
>  $INPUT/path/to/node
> };
>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>  <body>
>  <!-- there should be a span or two here -->
>  {
>     for $x in local:get-nodes()
>     order by $x
>     return element span { text { $x } }
>  }
>  </body>
> </html>
>
> =>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>  <body><!-- there should be a span or two here -->
>  <span>hello andrew</span><span>hello world</span>
>  </body>
> </html>
>
> That works, and it's my preferred solution. But here's another one, if you
> don't want to define a function:
>
> ...
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>  <body>
>  <!-- there should be a span or two here -->
>  {
>     <dummy xmlns="">{
>       for $x in $INPUT/path/to/node
>       order by $x
>       return element span { text { $x } }
>     }</dummy>/node()
>  }
>  </body>
> </html>
>
> =>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>  <body><!-- there should be a span or two here -->
>  <span xmlns="">hello andrew</span><span xmlns="">hello world</span>
>  </body>
> </html>
>
> I'm sure there are other approaches, but those are the two that came to
> mind. Hope that helps.
>
> -- Mike
>
> On 2008-12-17 06:08, Andrew Welch wrote:
>>
>> Yeah I saw that, thanks, but it's not really a reasonble solution...
>> (in my humble opinion)
>>
>> I will go with xquery building the input to a transform which
>> generates the xhtml, which is probably a nicer solution than using
>> just xquery anyway.
>>
>> I was going to say that generating xhtml should be the #1 use case,
>> but I guess using it in that way wasn't really expected?
>>
>>
>>
>> 2008/12/17 Jesper Tverskov<jesper.tverskov at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> I guess a wild card prefix would do as explained in my tutorial
>>> "Creating XHTML with XQuery", http://www.xmlplease.com/xquery-xhtml.
>>>
>>>
>>> for $x in collection(...)/*:path/*:to/*:node
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Jesper Tverskov
>>> http://www.xmlplease.com
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
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