Re: cannot find the namespace declarations from an extension function

Adrian Herscu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xalan.java.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Upgraded to Xalan 2.7.1 and JDK 6.0 Update 13, still no luck :(
Any suggestions?
Adrian.

Adrian Herscu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am using Xalan 2.7.0. I am writing a large XSL application which 
> processes WSDL files. Because of the nature of WSDL files, this 
> processing requires a complex loop declaration just to traverse a 
> reference. Right now, the code looks like this:
> 
> <!-- key for looking up the wsdl:binding -->
> <variable name="binding-key">
>   <apply-templates select="." mode="binding-key" />
> </variable>
> 
> <for-each select="key('binding',$binding-key)">
> ...
> </for-each>
> 
> Imagine few nested loops like the one above...
> Hence, I want to simplify the code to look like:
> 
> <for-each select="myxslutils:ref(/wsdl:definitions/wsdl:binding,
>   'name', @binding, /wsdl:definitions/@targetNamespace)">
> ...
> </for-each>
> 
> Somewhere in my extension function I need to extract the namespace URI 
> of a given prefix. I tried the node.lookupNamespaceURI(prefix) method 
> but it returns with a null value :( Tried it on the root element also 
> and got the same result. Tried to enumerate the attributes of the root 
> element and the namespace attributes are not returned -- any clues?
> 
> The WSDL document is read using this method:
> 
> transformer.transform(new StreamSource(reader),
>             new StreamResult(writer));
> 
> where reader is a java.io.FileReader.
> 
> It seems like the namespace declarations are missing from the parse 
> tree. OTH, the transformations depend on these namespace declarations 
> and they work as expected.
> 
> Please help,
> Adrian.
> 
>
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