Hi,

It's been awhile since I've worked with XSLT, but I'm having to implement one that removes an element (<Signature>) from the incoming (SOAP) message.  I know that this should be simple, and I know that I have written similar XSLT before, but for some reason, I can get this to work.

Here's an example SOAP message:

<SOAP:Envelope xmlns:saml="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:assertion" xmlns:samlp="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:protocol" xmlns:SOAP="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:wsse="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd" xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
    <SOAP:Header>
        <wsse:Security SOAP:mustUnderstand="1">
            <saml:Assertion MajorVersion="1" MinorVersion="1" AssertionID="ID46a342be-9d3a-437a-8a26-85fcd72a723d" Issuer="http://foo.com" IssueInstant="2009-12-01T21:55:13Z">
                <saml:Conditions NotBefore="2009-12-01T21:54:58Z" NotOnOrAfter="2009-12-01T22:10:28Z"/>
                <saml:AuthenticationStatement AuthenticationMethod="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:am:unspecified" AuthenticationInstant="2009-12-01T21:55:13Z">
                .....
                </saml:AuthenticationStatement>
             <Signature xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#">
                  ...                    
             </Signature></saml:Assertion></wsse:Security>
</SOAP:Header>
<env:Body>
        <m:hello xmlns:m="http://services">
            <m:x>123</m:x></m:hello>
</env:Body>
</SOAP:Envelope>


It's a SOAP message with a SAML assertion...

And, here's the XSLT that I'm using:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"  xmlns:dp="http://www.datapower.com/extensions" 
    xmlns:SOAP="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:saml="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:assertion" 
    xmlns:samlp="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:protocol" 
    xmlns:wsse="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd"
>
    <xsl:output method="xml"/>
    
    
    
    
    <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
    
    <xsl:template match="//Signature">
    </xsl:template>
    
</xsl:stylesheet>

What the XSLT seems to be doing is just doing the Identity transform, and copying everything from the input message to the output, i.e., the "<xsl:template match="//Signature">" is not getting processed at all.

I've tried different things for that template match, including just "Signature", a "fully-qualified" match term, etc.  

I have the impression that the XSLT processing should always use the more specific match (i.e., the one above, and not the Identity transform), but it doesn't seem to be working :(...

I've tried running this under an XSLT debugger (in oXygen), and I can see that it never gets to that template match.

I'm sure that I am missing something really obvious here, but I've been staring at  this for awhile, and can't see it, so I hope that someone can help :(!!

Thanks in advance!!

Jim