Re: [xsl] XPath - accessing nodes with a namespace with no prefix

[Philip Vallone <philip.vallone@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ken,

Thank you for your help. I should have been more clear. I am not using XSLT,
but rather libxml2 for C.

What I ended up doing was to give the namespace a prefix, but was wondering if
there was another way.

xmlns:n="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imscp_v1p1";

Thanks for your help,

Phil

On Dec 4, 2009, at 5:17 PM, G. Ken Holman wrote:

> At 2009-12-04 17:04 -0500, Philip Vallone wrote:
>> This is a pure xpath question.
>
> Which is frequently asked.
>
>> Suppose I have a namespace declaration like this:
>>
>> <organizations version="1.0"
xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imscp_v1p1";>
>>
>> The namespace does not have a prefix.
>
> Right, but the element node in the tree has the namespace in the expanded
name.
>
>> I want to use local-name() to access the nodes
>
> Why?  That would be improper.  You want to use qualified names representing
expanded names to access the node.
>
>> but not sure how. For example, how do I access a path like this:
>>
>> XPATH:
>>
>> /organizations/organization/title[2]/title
>
> In an XSLT 1 or XSLT 2 stylesheet:
>
> xmlns:ims="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imscp_v1p1";
> ...
> /ims:organizations/ims:organization/ims:title[2]/ims:title
>
>> XML:
>>        <organizations version="1.0"
xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imscp_v1p1";>
>>                <organization>
>>                        <title>SCORM 2004 4th Edition Manifest Basics
Content Example 1.0</title>
>> ...
>
> The expanded name in the stylesheet must match the expanded name in the XML
data.  The qualified name in the stylesheet can be different than the
qualified name in the XML data.  The qualified name in the stylesheet cannot
use the default namespace in XSLT 1.
>
> In XSLT 2 you can use xpath-default-namespace= to support unprefixed names
in XPath, but I've come to the conclusion it isn't helpful when more than one
input namespace is in use.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
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