[xsl] Namespace and XPATH for XHTML transform

My task  is to transform valid XHTML documents into slightly edited XHTML
documents. Before I can achieve this, I must perfect the exercise of finding
all the parts of my source documents. Eventually, I will be updating  href
attributes for certain anchor elements in hundreds of pages that need it. The
stylesheet ancho.xsl is a simple exercise preparatory to that task.

The list archives has been immensely helpful.  I am guessing this is an XPATH,
namespace problem in the match="/" template.

In my stylesheet (complete stylesheet and source document, and output are
 http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/x/ancho.xsl
http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/subjects/geneal/genealogy-beginners.htm [source]
http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/x/gbeg3c.htm [output])

the transform does what I expect for the select="xhtml:html" template, but not
for all of the match="/" template.

It is not returning the title of the document, nor is it returning the meta
element attribute value of content (DC.date). The same XPATH expressions work
fine, when I modify the source document and sidestep the namespace issues of
dealing with XHTML. But editing all source documents is silly.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
		xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
		xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; >
<xsl:strip-space  elements="*"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
         <xsl:variable name="myaccnt" select="count(//xhtml:a[.='My
Account'])"/>

  <html>
     <head><title>Anchor Tags in :: <xsl:value-of
select="/xhtml:html/head/title"/></title>
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="/s/muns.css" title="default"/>

     </head>
     <body>

       <h1>Anchor tags in :: <xsl:value-of
select="/xhtml:html/head/title"/></h1>


    <p>There are <xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$myaccnt"/>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text><strong>My Account</strong><xsl:text> anchor tags in
this document.</xsl:text></p>


       <xsl:apply-templates />

       <p><strong>Last rev. date:</strong> <xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="/xhtml:html/head/meta[@name = 'DC.date']/@content" /></p>

</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="xhtml:html">
  <xsl:variable name="anchors" select="count(//xhtml:a)"/>

    <p>There are <xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="$anchors"/><xsl:text> anchor tags in this document.</xsl:text></p>


	<xsl:apply-templates select="xhtml:body" />

</xsl:template>
... etc ...  [snip snip]

Bret Parker
Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library
605 N. El Dorado St
Stockton, CA 95202

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