Question

I think the best way to ask this question is: How do I specify a default namespace for the root element in the output? Doing this:

<xsl:template match="/">
        <r xmlns:s"http://www.mycompany.com/s/schema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.mycompany.com/default/schema" >
....
....

Gives me an error in Oracle:

ORA-31011: XML Parsing Failed
ORA-19201: Error occurred in in XML Processing
LPX-00604: Invalid attribute 'nIfNotExist', for attribute 'name'
ORA-06512: at SYS.XMLType at line 74 
ORA-06512: at line 24

where the 'nIfNotExist' is a template:

 <xsl:template name="nIfNotExist" xmlns:scom="http://www.mycomapny.com/s/schema">
  <xsl:param name="nodeToTest"/>
  <xsl:param name="nodeName"/>
                ...

I want the resulting document to have the root element look like this:

<r xmlns:s="http://www.mycompany.com/s/schema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.mycompany.com/default/schema">

I want "http://www.mycompany.com/default/schema" as the default namespace so the document can pass XSD validation. Otherwise, I have to add it manually before running validation (not an option for batch processing).

EDIT

I have tried this:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xmlns:s="http://www.mycompany.com/schema"
 xmlns="http://www.mycompany.com/def_schema">

The result is a document with no data, like this:

<r xmlns:s="http://www.mycompany.com/schema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.mycompany.com/def_schema">
    <a></a>
    <s:b></s:b>
    <c></c>
    ....

It should have been:

<r xmlns:s="http://www.mycompany.com/schema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.mycompany.com/def_schema">
    <a>123</a>
    <s:b>ABC34L</s:b>
    <c>7.092381</c>

UPDATE

Source data looks something like this (input that I get has no namespaces defined in it):

<ROOT_NODE>
    <DATA_A>1234</DATA_A>
    <DATA_B>34567</DATA_B>
    <OTHER_DATA_C>7.123456</OTHER_DATA_C>
</ROOT_NODE>

Desired output

<r xmlns:s="http://www.mycompany.com/schema"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
   xmlns="http://www.mycompany.com/def_schema">
    <a>1234</a>
    <s:b>34567</s:b>
    <c>7.123456</c>
</r>

Answer 1

There are many possible solutions, but none seem to work well in Oracle, from PL/SQL. One of the other devs here “solved” this by converting the XML object to a CLOB, performing some string manipulation to force the default namespace into the root element, and then converting back to XML for the next step… I don’t like it but it works…