Re: [Xsltforms-support] Namespace issue (not quite newbie)...

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On Sun, 5 Dec 2021, Ralph Corrigan wrote:

> Hi all, 
> You were kind enough to help me earlier in the year when I was looking
> at xsltforms for the first time, and things have moved a long way from
> there. But I'm hitting a problem going back through the documents and
> forms trying to make them conformant with TEI (not my choice, because
> we're not actually encoding text, but anyway). These problems arose
> early on, so I removed it and ran everything through the empty namespace
> (xmlns="").
> So target (e.g.) is:
>
> <TEI xmlns=""> ....................
> <listPerson/>
> </TEU>
>
> And the instance that populates it is:
>
> <xf:instance id"XX">
> <items xmlns="">
> <listPerson/>
> </items>
> </xf:instance>.
>
> On the form itself, the input fields all use the xf: prefix, so
> <xf:input ref="instance('XX')/listPerson/person"> etc. An xquery POST
> then inserts the instance data (using request:get-data()/*) into the
> original xml document.
>
> This all works absolutely fine and does everything I would expect it to.
>
>
> However, if I change the namespace in the instance to <items
> xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> [1] the xf:input fields  no longer
> render. Try as I might, wherever I put the namespace declaration on the
> form (and even if I add it to the xsltforms.xsl) the fields no longer
> render. I have noticed that there is no reference to the TEI namespace
> in the finally generated header, which I'#m guessing could be the
> problem, but I've no idea how to get it there:
>
> <html xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xalan"
> xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
> xmlns:ajx="http://www.ajaxforms.net/2006/ajx"
> xmlns:txs="http://www.agencexml.com/txs"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><!--HTML elements
> generated by XSLTForms 1.5.5 (661) - Copyright (C) 2021 <agenceXML> -
> Alain Couthures - http://www.agencexml.com-->.
>
> I thought I'd be able to work around it by calling a src instance from
> the main TEI namespace xml document, but this runs into the same
> problem.
>
> Any ideas about how I get round this (or do it properly in the first
> place)!
>

If not sorted yet, please will you by reply, attach the smallest complete 
xform and any instance(s) that are not working as you'd expect.

I'm not a 'namespace' guru, but namespaces I find can be quite testing.

Thank you
Habs

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