Re: [xsl] Use of xsl:apply-templates exception with an element

Subject: Re: [xsl] Use of xsl:apply-templates exception with an element
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:29:05 +0100
> As "If you are confident that thenamespace URI makes no difference, then 
> you can test using the predicate [local-name()!=$name]", then, isn't
> <xsl:copy-of select="*@[name() = ($name1, $name2, $name3, $name4)]"/>
> with stable prefixes,

no name() is totally unreliable as a test. In XSLT1 you can not even be sure
that it reports the exact name used in the source, it can use any prefix
at all, as determined by the parser. If the namespace uri doesn't matter
then use local-name().

David

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