Question

I have an XML document with un-namespaced elements, and I want to use XSLT to add namespaces to them. Most elements will be in namespace A; a few will be in namespace B. How do I do this?

Answer 1

With foo.xml

<foo x='1'>     <bar y='2'>         <baz z='3'/>     </bar>     <a-special-element n='8'/> </foo> 

and foo.xsl

    <xsl:template match='*'>         <xsl:element name='{local-name()}' namespace='A' >             <xsl:copy-of select='attribute::*'/>             <xsl:apply-templates />         </xsl:element>     </xsl:template>      <xsl:template match='a-special-element'>         <B:a-special-element xmlns:B='B'>             <xsl:apply-templates match='children()'/>         </B:a-special-element>     </xsl:template>  </xsl:transform> 

I get

<foo xmlns='A' x='1'>     <bar y='2'>         <baz z='3'/>     </bar>     <B:a-special-element xmlns:B='B'/> </foo> 

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