Re: [xsl] transforming xhtml question

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="//html"/>

even when that works you don't want to do that: //html means search teh
entire document tree and find all elements called head, at any depth in
the tree. This is -slow_. If you want to find an element called html
in no namespace that is a child of the current / node you want
<xsl:apply-templates select="html"/>

however

> I'm having problems navigating to the html elment and other elements
> when I leave the Doctype and namespace at the top of the xhtml doc. 

this is a FFFAQ.

To match in the xhtml namespace (which is defaulted buy teh xhtml dtd
even if you don't make it explicit) you need
to declare the xhtml namespace in your stylesheet
with something like xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/chtml"; then use
h:html rather than html etc.

David

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