Re: Re: [xsl] Copying nodes from other than the input file

Subject: Re: Re: [xsl] Copying nodes from other than the input file
From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 12:30:13 -0600 (MDT)
Maik Stührenberg wrote:
> Thank you both Joerg and Michael, using <xsl:copy-of 
> select="document(MetaData/Technical/Location) /xhtml:html/xhtml:head"/> 
> works, but only if I declare the namespace prefixed 
> (xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";) and not as default namespace 
> (xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";) in the XSLT. So, if have to change 
> all previously inserted XHTML elements to prefixed elements...

Right. The default namespace in the stylesheet only applies to literal result
elements, not XPath expressions or XSLT match patterns. In an XSLT match
pattern or an XPath expression, no prefix means no namespace, and if you need
to use a non-null namespace, you have to use a prefix. Whenever you use a
prefix, no matter where it is, of course it must be bound to a namespace name
(URI) in that same document.

   - Mike
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