Re: [xsl] Namespaces

[David Totten <xsl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you David, this works, and your explanation helped me to
understand this alot better. I appreciate your help.

David Totten

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:07:52PM +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, the dtd is here:
> 
> wherein we find:
> 
> <!ENTITY % ESJA.xmlns       "'http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd'" >
> 
> <!ENTITY % top-level.att
>                "xmlns           CDATA               #FIXED  %ESJA.xmlns;
> 
> which means that every element is in http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd
> (or at least i assume that applies to every element, I didn't actually
> read much of the dtd)
> 
> Assuming that's right it means that a source element that looks like
> <title>
> is really
> <title xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd";>
> which means that a match of "title" or a select of /foo/bar/title
> will not find it, as they are looking for no-namespace.
>  you need on teh xsl:stylesheet element
> 
> xmlns:e="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd";
> 
> (or any other prefix that is free if e: is taken)
> 
> then have
> 
> match="e:title"
> select="/e:foo/e:/bar/e:/title"
> etc.
> 
> In XPath 1 you have to prefix any elements in a namespace.
> 
> Xpath/xslt2 drafts  allow you to say that the default namespace for
> Xpath is "http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd"; then your original would
> work, but XSLT2 is not yet a done deal.
> 
> David
> 
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