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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I am fairly sure I have answered my own question, but I still can’t believe it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So maybe I’m missing something obvious.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Using XQuery<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I need to create an XML file (in this case an XSLT file) with namespaces declared in the root node that are dynamically constructed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’d *<b>like</b>* to do something like this (which doesn’t work …)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><transform><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> { for $n in $my_namespaces <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> return attribute { concat(“xmlns:” , $n/@prefix ) } { $n/@uri } <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> }<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In this case the list of namespaces needed is *<b>not</b>* available as a static context in the XQuery.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The best I’ve done so far is to create bogus attributes in a computed namespace.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Actual code :<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><span style='color:blue'>document</span> {<br> <<span style='color:#EA8F10'>xsl:stylesheet</span> <span style='color:#D00020'>version=</span><span style='color:#000090'>"2.0"</span> ><br> {<br> <span style='color:blue'>for</span> $ns <span style='color:blue'>in</span> $common:nsmap//ns<br> <span style='color:blue'>return</span><br> <span style='color:blue'>attribute</span> { fn:QName($ns/@uri, concat($ns/@prefix,<span style='color:purple'>":bogus"</span>))} {}<br><br> }<br> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>….<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>}<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This creates a bunch of “bogus” attributes and as a side effect also creates their namespace declarations.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Like this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'><</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#AC306D'>xsl:stylesheet </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#D00020'> xmlns:xsl=</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#000090'>"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#D00020'><br> xmlns:ns1=</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#000090'>"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#D00020'><br> xmlns:ns2=</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#000090'>"http://www.xmlsh.org/jxml"</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#D00020'><br> version=</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#000090'>"2.0"</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#D00020'><br> ns1:bogus=</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#000090'>""</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#D00020'><br> ns2:bogus=</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#000090'>""</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'>></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The typical case I’ve seen documented is to simply create the elements you need in the right namespace then namespace nodes get created properly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This works fine *<b>IF</b>* you are creating elements or attributes. But in my case I am creating the dreaded QNames in Conent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>e.g XSLT Match expressions with prefixes … so there are no actual elements or attributers with the namespaces.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>My question … is there a ‘better’ way of creating apparently unused namespace nodes using XQuery based on runtime data ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Thanks for any suggestions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Fortunately this “hack” actually works with XSLT as it ignores the bogus attributes … but if I were having to do this for another document type it may not.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>----------------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>David A. Lee<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:dlee@calldei.com"><span style='color:blue'>dlee@calldei.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.xmlsh.org"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.xmlsh.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>