Re: [Xsltforms-support] XSLTForms and SVG

[Tim T. <tim...@gm...>]

Alain,

Excellent--thank you for the explanation and solution! What is it with
Firefox and namespaces? :-)

Best regards,
Tim

--
Tim A. Thompson
Metadata Librarian (Spanish/Portuguese Specialty)
Princeton University Library


On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Alain Couthures <
ala...@ag...> wrote:

> Tim,
>
> Thank you for pointing at this issue!
>
> XSLTForms stylesheet has to deal with namespaces: the best approach for
> browsers appears to deliver no namespace for HTML. Using <xsl:copy> is not
> a good solution and using <xsl:element> and <xsl:attribute> allows to
> remove the XHTML namespace.
>
> BTW, with the previous template, Saxon was complaining that attributes
> cannot have attributes...
>
> So, I prefer improve the current templates with non-HTML namespaces
> support, such as SVG, at least for elements:
>
> <xsl:template match="*" priority="-2" xmlns:xhtml=
> "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml> xmlns:xsl=
> "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> <http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform>>
>     <xsl:param name="appearance" select="@appearance"/>
>     <xsl:param name="parentworkid"/>
>     <xsl:param name="workid"
> select="concat(position(),'_',$parentworkid)"/>
>     <xsl:choose>
>         <xsl:when test="namespace-uri() != '' and namespace-uri() != '
> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'">
>             <xsl:element name="{local-name()}"
> namespace="{namespace-uri()}">
>                 <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
>                 <xsl:apply-templates select="node()">
>                     <xsl:with-param name="parentworkid" select="$workid"/>
>                     <xsl:with-param name="appearance"
> select="$appearance"/>
>                 </xsl:apply-templates>
>             </xsl:element>
>         </xsl:when>
>         <xsl:otherwise>
>             <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
>                 <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
>                 <xsl:apply-templates select="node()">
>                     <xsl:with-param name="parentworkid" select="$workid"/>
>                     <xsl:with-param name="appearance"
> select="$appearance"/>
>                 </xsl:apply-templates>
>             </xsl:element>
>         </xsl:otherwise>
>     </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
>
> I have successfully tested this with Firefox (Firefox is not anymore my
> default browser because of too many conformance, performance and freeze
> issues...).
>
> Thank you for your feedback!
>
> --Alain
>
>
> Le 19/01/2016 14:11, Tim Thompson a écrit :
>
> Alain,
>
> I am hoping to do some work with XForms and SVG and have been looking at
> the current XSLTForms SVG examples. I noticed that, since rev. 595 of
> XSLTForms, none of the SVG examples work in Firefox. The reason seems to be
> the changes made to the fallback identity template in xsltforms.xsl.
>
> In the latest revision, if lines 1203-1228[1] are reverted back to the
> template used prior to rev. 595, then the SVG examples will work in Firefox:
>
> <xsl:template xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> match="node()|@*" priority="-2">
>     <xsl:param name="appearance" select="@appearance"/>
>     <xsl:param name="parentworkid"/>
>     <xsl:param name="workid"
> select="concat(position(),'_',$parentworkid)"/>
>     <xsl:copy>
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="node()">
>             <xsl:with-param name="parentworkid" select="$workid"/>
>             <xsl:with-param name="appearance" select="$appearance"/>
>         </xsl:apply-templates>
>     </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> Is there a reason not to use this more generic template? I tested on a
> range of browsers and did not notice any immediate issues.
>
> Thanks again!
> Tim
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/AlainCouthures/xsltforms/blob/master/build/xsltforms.xsl#L1203
>
>
> --
> Tim A. Thompson
> Metadata Librarian (Spanish/Portuguese Specialty)
> Princeton University Library
>
>
>