[xsl] Problem caused by Name space

[Jeff Nester <jeff.nester@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have a SOAP document that is being returned back to me that I want to 
use XSLT to format for display on my web page. I am getting the SOAP 
content from a 3rd party and don't have control over it. Here is a 
snippet of the SOAP xml:

<soap:envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope";>
 <soap:body>
  <eraRequest xmlns="http://www.somewhere.com/era";>
    <uri>data</uri>
    <parameters>
      <data>4</data>
    </parameters>
  </eraRequest>
 </soap:body>
</soap:envelope>

I am using this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
root
 <xsl:apply-templates select="//parameters"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="parameters">
parameters
  <xsl:apply-templates select="//data"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="data">
  data: <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Here are my questions:

1st) The XSLT never finds anything below root. If I specify a prefix in 
the eraRequest xmlns section then everything works correctly. Is there a 
way to write the XSLT so that it doesn't need the prefix to local the 
<data>?

2nd) is the statement    <eraRequest 
xmlns="http://www.somewhere.com/era";> in the xml legal? do you not have 
to put a prefix with the name space?


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