Create xmlns:xsi namespace and attribute

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.