Re: [xsl] Namespaces abort the nodematching

Subject: Re: [xsl] Namespaces abort the nodematching
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:18:13 -0400
At 2003-07-21 19:23 +0200, Kai Lienemann wrote:
I have a file with a namespace-declaration like this

xmlns="http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/CVSchema/sopra";

the nodematching like

<xsl:template match="PHOTO | PHOTO | IMG | FOTO | BILD | BILDCHEN">
...
doesn't work!!!!

This is a FFFAQ ... unprefixed qualified names in XPath 1.0 expressions only match against non-namepaced constructs. In order to match any construct in a namespace, it is necessary to prefix the construct in your XPath expression.


I hope this helps.

.............. Ken


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