Subject: RE: [xsl] how to select elements in a given namespace? From: "Passin, Tom" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:48:53 -0500 |
[Robert P. J. Day] > > [xpathtester is steadfastly refusing to be helpful since it does > not highlight selected nodes based on attributes or namespaces.] > > from tidwell's book, if i have an excerpt from an XML file: > > <auth:author xmlns:auth=...> > <last-name>... > <first-name>... > <nationality>... > <year-of-birth>... > <year-of-death>... > </auth:author> > > if i want to select all nodes in a given namespace ("auth"), it > appears i can use: > > //namespace::auth > > and while xpathtester refuses to highlight the matches, it > does at least > tell me there were 6 of them. i'm assuming that these matches are the > auth:author element itself, and the 5 children, right? > > so what is the XPath expression to match, say, the > <last-name> elements > within this namespace? > Think simple ... auth:author/last-name ("last-name" is not qualified by the "auth" namespace, while "author" is). OR, if the context is already set to auth:author, then simply use last-name. For example - <xsl:template match='auth:author'> <xsl:value-of select='last-name'/> </xsl:template> Remember that you have to declare the "auth" namespace - put the declaration into the xsl:stylesheet element. Cheers, Tom P XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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