xml - How to get a list of all used namespaces?

Question

I'm writing an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet to transform multi-namespace XML documents to HTML. At some place in the result HTML I want to list all the namespaces, that occured in the document.

Is this possibile?

I thought about something like

<xsl:for-each select="//*|//@*">
  <xsl:value-of select="namespace-uri(.)" />
</xsl:for-each>

but of course I'd get gazillions of duplicates. So I'd have to filter somehow, what I already printed.

Recursively calling templates would work, but I can't wrap my head around how to reach all elements.

Accessing //@xmlns:* directly doesn't work, because one can't access this via XPath (one isn't allowed to bind any prefix to the xmlns: namespace).

Answer 1

Another without extension functions:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:template match="*">
        <xsl:param name="pNamespaces" select="'&#xA;'"/>
        <xsl:variable name="vNamespaces">
            <xsl:variable name="vMyNamespaces">
                <xsl:value-of select="$pNamespaces"/>
                <xsl:for-each select="namespace::*
                                        [not(contains(
                                                 $pNamespaces,
                                                 concat('&#xA;',.,'&#xA;')))]">
                    <xsl:value-of select="concat(.,'&#xA;')"/>
                </xsl:for-each>
            </xsl:variable>
            <xsl:variable name="vChildsNamespaces">
                <xsl:apply-templates select="*[1]">
                    <xsl:with-param name="pNamespaces"
                                        select="$vMyNamespaces"/>
                </xsl:apply-templates>
            </xsl:variable>
            <xsl:value-of select="concat(substring($vMyNamespaces,
                                                   1 div not(*)),
                                         substring($vChildsNamespaces,
                                                   1 div boolean(*)))"/>
        </xsl:variable>
        <xsl:variable name="vFollowNamespaces">
            <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::*[1]">
                <xsl:with-param name="pNamespaces" select="$vNamespaces"/>
            </xsl:apply-templates>
        </xsl:variable>
        <xsl:value-of
             select="concat(substring($vNamespaces,
                                      1 div not(following-sibling::*)),
                            substring($vFollowNamespaces,
                                      1 div boolean(following-sibling::*)))"/>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output (With Dimitre's input sample):

http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace
mynamespace
mynamespace2
mynamespace3

EDIT: Also this XPath expression:

//*/namespace::*[not(. = ../../namespace::*|preceding::*/namespace::*)]

As proof, this stylesheet:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="text"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:for-each select="//*/namespace::*
                                     [not(. = ../../namespace::*|
                                              preceding::*/namespace::*)]">
            <xsl:value-of select="concat(.,'&#xA;')"/>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace
mynamespace
mynamespace2
mynamespace3

EDIT 4: Same efficient as two pass transformation.

This stylesheet:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="text"/>
    <xsl:key name="kElemByNSURI"
             match="*[namespace::*[not(. = ../../namespace::*)]]"
              use="namespace::*[not(. = ../../namespace::*)]"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:for-each select=
            "//namespace::*[not(. = ../../namespace::*)]
                           [count(..|key('kElemByNSURI',.)[1])=1]">
            <xsl:value-of select="concat(.,'&#xA;')"/>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace
mynamespace
mynamespace2
mynamespace3

EDIT 5: When you are dealing with a XSLT processor without namespace axe implementation (Like TransforMiix), you can only extract namespaces actually used with this stylesheet:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="text"/>
    <xsl:key name="kElemByNSURI" match="*|@*" use="namespace-uri()"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:for-each select=
            "(//*|//@*)[namespace-uri()!='']
                       [count(.|key('kElemByNSURI',namespace-uri())[1])=1]">
            <xsl:value-of select="concat(namespace-uri(),'&#xA;')"/>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

TransforMiix output:

mynamespace2