Re: [xsl] Problem accessing child nodes of a variable nodeset

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dan,

At 12:37 PM 9/16/2003, you wrote:
> Can anybody guess what I'm doing wrong? I suspect it may have something
> to do with namespaces, as I'm having a few problems with these - I've
> had to declare prefixes for all of my namespaces, so that the above
> select, without variables, would look like:
>
>         <xsl:value-of select="ws:webpage/title"/>

Ah -- is the title in the same namespace as its parent webpage? as in

<webpage xmlns="ws-namespace">
  <title>...</title>
  ...
</webpage>

If so, your supposition is correct.

> I imagine that, with a variable giving a starting point in the node
> tree, the namespace should be picked up automatically, but perhaps this
> isn't the case for child elements?

No, it isn't picked up automatically. The name you give is the name it 
uses. The problem is, that given namespaces, the name you give may not be 
the name you want to give, even when it looks right. You need to say

<xsl:value-of select="$pageNode/ws:title"/>

The name of the variable does not need to be qualified in any way, but the 
name of its descendant includes its namespace, and this has to be accounted 
for in the stylesheet even if in the source, that namespace is given by 
default and no prefix used.

That's namespaces.

Cheers,
Wendell


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