Matching nodes in the default namespace

Have tried this with both Saxon and IE5.5+; neither seems to work as expected. Also checked Mike Kay's book but haven't found anything yet.

Here's the XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test.xsl"?>
<!--catalog last updated 2000-11-01-->
<catalog xmlns="http://www.example.com/catalog/";>
  <book id="bk101">
    <author>Some author</author>
    <title>Some Title</title>
    <genre>Some genre</genre>
    <price>Some price</price>
    <publish_date>Some date</publish_date>
    <description>Some description</description>
  </book>
</catalog>

And here's test.xsl:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"; >

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <html>
      <title>Book catalog</title>
      <body>
        <table border="1">
          <tr>
            <th>Author</th>
            <th>Title</th>
            <th>Genre</th>
            <th>Price</th>
            <th>Pub Date</th>
            <th>Description</th>
          </tr>
          <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
        </table>
      </body>
    </html>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="catalog">
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="book">
       <tr>
       <td><xsl:value-of select="author"/></td>
       <td><cite><xsl:value-of select="title"/></cite></td>
       <td><xsl:value-of select="genre"/></td>
       <td><xsl:value-of select="price"/></td>
       <td><xsl:value-of select="publish_date"/></td>
       <td><xsl:value-of select="description"/></td>
      </tr>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

What happens is that the match/select expressions locate *nothing* in the XML doc (so I get a result tree consisting of the table headers, but otherwise nothing else). If I take out the default namespace declaration in the <catalog> element, it works exactly as expected. Clearly, the match/select are attempting to match on the fully expanded node names (i.e. including namespace URI) in the source tree.

What's the magic word that enables you to do a match/select on an element in an explicitly URI'd default namespace?

P.S. Yes, I know there's no reason to use any namespace decl. at all in the doc, since its contents don't come from more than one namespace. The question remains, though -- how do you match on a null namespace prefix that's nonetheless associated with a namespace URI?

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