Question

I want to create the following element:

<exercises xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="mySchema.xsd"> 

If I use something like this:

<xsl:element name="excercises"> <xsl:attribute name="xmlns:xsi" namespace="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/> 

Then it creates soemthing like this:

<excercises xp_0:xsi="" xmlns:xp_0="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> 

Which doesn’t look like what I want…

Answer 1

Try the following instead:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <xsl:stylesheet version='1.0'      xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'      xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'>      <xsl:output method='xml' indent='yes'/>      <xsl:template match='@* | node()'>         <xsl:apply-templates select='xml'></xsl:apply-templates>     </xsl:template>      <xsl:template match='xml'>         <xsl:element name='exercises'>             <xsl:attribute name='xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation'>mySchema.xsd</xsl:attribute>             some value         </xsl:element>     </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> 

The key concern is to declare the xsi namespace in the declaration.

I’ve just made up the template match on just to test.