RE: Matching nodes in the default namespace

["John E. Simpson" <simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:18 PM 09/28/2000 -0700, Evan Lenz wrote:

> [...snip...]
>
> If your stylesheet doesn't include a namespace declaration for a namespace
> that's in the source document, there is no way you'll be able to explicitly
> match nodes in that namespace (apart from using a wildcard, such as *).
> Remember, whether the source document uses prefixes or not is completely
> immaterial in XSLT.  Forget about prefixes and think only about fully
> qualified names which consist of a local name and a namespace URI.  How that
> fully-qualified name is represented, whether by a default namespace or a
> namespace prefix, is immaterial.

Marvelously clear explanation, Evan. Thanks very much.

Btw, it was interesting that the corrected stylesheet you provided differed 
from the one David C. offered, in that yours did not include an 
exclude-result-prefixes declaration....

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