JSP Documents (JSP pages in XML format) and Namespaces

Question

I have 1 set of XSLT stylesheets that takes XML and outputs JSP documents.
This 1 set of XSLT supports numerous clients (customers).
I have a new customer that uses a new namespace, let's call it "xyz".
This namespace is the TLD for xyz custom tags.
So, it would look something like this in the resulting jsp:root tag --> xmlns:xyz = "/xyzTagLib".
Where /xyzTagLib has a corresponding entry in web.xml that points to the xyz.tld that is delivered in WEB-INF/TLD.
However, most customers do not have the xyz application installed.
Thus, I added the exclude-namespace-prefixes="xyz" in the xsl:stylesheet tag to conditionally add the xmlns:xyz only if an xyz tag exists. However, this does not add it to the jsp:root tag, but only to each individual xyz tag in the resulting document.
However, the resulting JSP does not work in the runtime environment because it does not recognize the xyz tags.
Is there a known bug with jsp documents declaring namespaces "in line" instead of at the jsp:root level? Is there a way around this?
Thanks,
Brian

Answer 1

Hi Tridib,
the XML content is stored in the .xml file. You'll have to access it in a way that doesn't cause the XML-to-HTML transformation to take a peek at the format. You could probably do this by accessing the repository in question via WebDAV. If you're on a later SP, you should be able to go to /irj/go/km/docs/ in your browser to access the repository via WebDAV. Otherwise, take a look in the details pane of the folder that contains the .xml file in question. Under properties, there'll be a URL to access the folder via WebDAV.