Re: [xsl] XPATH problem with namespace

Emmanouil Batsis wrote:

Apologies for the XSLT 2.0 newbie question but why does the XSLT author have to deal with two default namespaces in the same document? At first glance, it seems that making XPath aware of the XSLT document's default namespace is a simpler solution.

A single XPath expression can easily refer to nodes both in namespaces and nodes not in any namespace. It needs to be able to refer to each, and in Namespaces 1.0 there's no way to map a prefix to no namespace so unprefixed names must be reserved for names in no namespace.

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Re: [xsl] XPATH problem with namespace, (continued) Ranjan K. Baisak - Thu, 7 Oct 2004 06:39:11 -0700 (PDT) Michael Kay - Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:27:45 +0100 Emmanouil Batsis - Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:15:50 +0300 David Carlisle - Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:20:56 +0100 Elliotte Harold - Thu, 07 Oct 2004 07:23:06 -0400 <= Michael Kay - Thu, 7 Oct 2004 13:07:25 +0100 G. Ken Holman - Wed, 06 Oct 2004 22:51:29 -0400 Nestor Boscan - Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:00:35 -0400 Michael Kay - Thu, 7 Oct 2004 08:58:28 +0100

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