Hello Michael,

Monday, August 14, 2006, 5:37:47 PM, you wrote:

> You can't get rid of the namespace declaration, because without it the
> <asp:xyz> and <asp:Label> elements would not be namespace-well-formed.

> Perhaps you don't really want these elements to be in the namespace
> System.Web.UI.WebControls? But in that case, why would you be putting them
> in that namespace?

> Or perhaps you're trying to generate output that is neither well-formed XML
> nor well-formed HTML? (I guess that might apply to ASP.NET pages?) That's a
> tricky one: in principle you can do it by writing your own serializer, but
> that might be more work than you want to attempt. The alternative is to
> generate XML and then post-process it using a non-XML-aware tool such as
> Perl. For example, you could generate output elements named asp.Label
> instead of asp:Label.

> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>  

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Arthur Maloney [mailto:ArthurM@xxxxxxxxxx] 
>> Sent: 14 August 2006 16:56
>> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject:  How do you remove namespace?
>> 
>> Hello xsl-list,
>> 
>>   I'm using Xslt 2.0 to author some ASP.Net code building
>> 
>>   in a library xsl file I have:
>> 
>> <xsl:template name="masthead">
>> <div id="masthead">
>>      <xsl:element name="asp:xyz">
>>                   <xsl:attribute name="Id" select="'lblPageTitle'"/>
>>                   <xsl:attribute name="runat" select="'server'"/>
>>      </xsl:element>
>>      <asp:Label Id="lblPageTitle" runat="server" />
>>      <asp:Label Id="lblPageCaption" runat="server" />
>>      <asp:Label Id="lblMessage" runat="server" />
>> </div><!-- end of masthead -->
>> 
>> when called  it gives
>>       <div id="masthead">
>>         <asp:xyz runat="server" 
>> xmlns:asp="System.Web.UI.WebControls" Id="lblPageTitle"></asp:xyz>
>>         <asp:Label runat="server" 
>> xmlns:asp="System.Web.UI.WebControls" Id="lblPageTitle"></asp:Label>
>>       ...
>>       </div>
>> 
>> 
>> I want to get rid of xmlns:asp="System.Web.UI.WebControls"
>> In the stylesheet element I have:
>> 
>> I have xmlns:asp="System.Web.UI.WebControls
>> 
>> without this I get error SXXP0003 The prefix asp FOR ELEMENT 
>> asp:Label is not bound
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>  Arthur                          mailto:ArthurM@xxxxxxxxxx
>> 


Thanks Mike, its MS
> being neither well-formed XML
> nor well-formed HTML? (I guess that might apply to ASP.NET pages?)

I've some c# code generators so I'll probably go that way for asp:
(server controls)

At the moment it more about trying to get to grips with Xslt 2.0.

-- 
Best regards,
 Arthur                            mailto:ArthurM@xxxxxxxxxx