Re: [Exist-open] Adding @xmlns to root element - with eXist, xquery update

[Andrzej J. T. <an...@ch...>]

> I'm afraid you have to reconstruct every element in the new namespace : 
> you are really changing their identity (in other words, it's not 
> "just" a matter of adding an "attribute"). Once done, eXist should handle 
> the namespace declaration automatically in the right place  :-) 
> 
> Unfortunately, this is not very easy to do in XQuery, at least in 
> just a single line. We have described such a "copy constructor" several 
> times on this mailing-list though...

It's probably a lot easier to to this using an XSLT transform, than in XQuery! And since calling an XSLT from XQuery is 
pretty simple, I'ld go that route.

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Andrzej Taramina
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