Re: Use of XLST to clean up MadCap HTML; RE: Unadulterated Flare HTML/XML output

["MARK bAKER" <mbaker -at- analecta -dot- com>]

Adding the exclude-result-prefixes attribute should get rid of the MadCap 
prefix:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
               xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
               xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
               xmlns:MadCap="http://www.madcapsoftware.com/Schemas/MadCap.xsd";
              exclude-result-prefixes="MadCap">

Mark


-----Original Message----- 
From: Richard L Hamilton
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 8:13 PM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Use of XLST to clean up MadCap HTML;RE: Unadulterated Flare 
HTML/XML output

Leonard,

You're right that, in general, you're going to have trouble using XSLT on 
HTML files. However, the example you included is XHTML, which you can handle 
with XSLT. Here's a quick try at a stylesheet that will remove any MadCap 
prefixed elements or attributes (I'm not guaranteeing anything, but it 
worked on your example below):

==============
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
               xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
               xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
               xmlns:MadCap="http://www.madcapsoftware.com/Schemas/MadCap.xsd";>

<xsl:output method="xml"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
 <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<!-- get rid of MadCap prefixed elements and attributes, respectively  -->
<xsl:template match="MadCap:*"/>
<xsl:template match="@MadCap:*"/>

<!-- Identity transform for everything else -->
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
  <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
======================

A couple of caveats:

1) You will either need to have the schema for MadCap available, or choose a 
no-validation option on your xsl processor (the latter is easier and 
reasonably safe, since I suspect Flare generates clean XML). For xsltproc, 
you would use the --novalid option.
2) This stylesheet leaves in the MadCap namespace declaration, even though 
the namespace doesn't occur in the result. There's probably a way to get rid 
of it, but I don't know off-hand how to do that. If it's important, you can 
always strip it out by hand or using something like perl.

Hope that helps.

Richard Hamilton
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On Aug 8, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Porrello, Leonard wrote: