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I can't get around the error: "Prefix 'xmlns' is not defined." 2

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Sniipe

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I have an xslt file which can be called 2 ways;
1) the user clicked on excel download
2) the user clicked on html download

I can get the html download working, but not excel download.

When I try to add in the code I want, neither work and I get the same error:
"Prefix 'xmlns' is not defined."

This is the code:

Code: 
<html>
<xsl:choose>
	<xsl:when test="$reportType = 'HTML'">
		<xsl:call-template name="HTMLStyle"/>
	</xsl:when>
	<xsl:otherwise>		
		<xsl:attribute name="xmlns">
[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40[/URL]	
		</xsl:attribute>
		<xsl:attribute name="xmlns:o">
urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office
		</xsl:attribute>
		<xsl:attribute name="xmlns:x">
urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel
		</xsl:attribute>
		<xsl:call-template name="ExcelStyle"/>
	</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<body>
	<h1>MAIN SITE</h1>

I need the html to look like this when excel is being used (denoted by the otherwise from <xsl:call-template name="HTMLStyle"/>):
<html xmlns:eek:="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:eek:ffice" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:excel" xmlns="
And when its HTML; I don't need it to look like that.

Any help or pointers would be appreciated. Thanks
 
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[1] It is unclear the namespace of <body> onward which may be a big chunk of tags. It might have relevence because I would have in mind to start with establishing the <html> on its own for the two different cases.

[2] To similify the reasoning, suppose I put all the body fragment into a common named template "common".
[tt]
[blue]<xsl:template name="common">
<body>
<h1>MAIN SITE</h1>
<!-- etc etc including possibly even xsl:apply-templates -->
</body>
</xsl:template>[/blue]
[/tt]
[3] Then the part of establishing the html tag is more involved.

[3.1] In the stylesheet declaration, declare the desired default namespace for the html for excel with some arbitrary prefix, say "d", _and_ at the same time, let the same as the default namespace of the xsl as well. Both bits are important.
[tt]
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl=" [blue]xmlns=" xmlns:d="[/blue]
>
[/tt]
[3.2] The declare an xsl:namespace-alias statement at the top level.
[tt]
[blue]<xsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="d" result-prefix="#default" />[/blue]
[/tt]
[3.3] In the xsl:choose, it is called outside the setup of html tag. Here, there are some uncertainties to the detail, but, the big picture I see is this.
[tt]
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$reportType = 'HTML'">
[blue]<xsl:element name="html">[/blue]
<xsl:call-template name="HTMLStyle"/>
[blue]<xsl:call-template name="common" />[/blue]
[blue]</xs:element>[/blue]
</xsl:when>
<xsl:eek:therwise>
[blue]<d:html
xmlns:eek:="urn:schema-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:eek:ffice"
xmlns:x="urn:schema-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:excel"
>[/blue]
[blue]<xsl:call-template name="ExcelStyle"/>[/blue]
<xsl:call-template name="common" />
</d:html>
</xsl:eek:therwise>
</xsl:choose>
[/tt]
[4] There is some uncertainty as to the repercussion on the $reportType='HTML' part, but the otherwise part should go more or less like shown above.
 
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tsuji, u are invaluable. this is the second or third time you have helped me out. Thank you for your post. I got it working.
 
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The thankfulness is reciprocal. It is always a pleasure to answer good questions reasonably formulated to a scale still being answerable (that is not easy to do), though I do not say thanks all the time.
 
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tsuji said:
It is always a pleasure to answer good questions reasonably formulated...
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I agree...and add my star. tsuji is not only helping sniipe, but also dozens, perhaps hundreds, of others. And it is all in response to good questions reasonably formulated!

Tom Morrison
 
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the man (a presumption) is a living legend! Yes, I agree a well answered post really helps people later on.
 
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