RE: [xsl] Namespace related question

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I am a novice and struggling for last few days to get the solution.
> 
> here is sample xml document, I want to read the value of 
> attribute xmlns.Res 
> using XSL stylesheet 
> 
> <PT xmlns.Res="PT_MSG"> 
> ....
> </PT>

I assume you mean xmlns:Res="PT_MSG"? (":" not ".")?

Namespace declarations are not attributes in the XPath data model. A
namespace declaration in your source document translates into a
namespace node in the data model, and must be read using the namespace
axis rather than the attribute axis. So you can access it as
namespace::Res.

But it would be nicer to show us the whole problem you are tackling:
people will probably have comments at the design level. Explicit access
to namespace nodes is not a common requirement and I wouldn't normally
expect a novice to need to do it. There is probably an easier way of
solving your problem.

Michael Kay

> 
> here's my stylesheet
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet  version="1.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" />
> 
> 		<xsl:template match="HFPT" 
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace";> 
> 		<xsl:copy-of select="@xmlns:Res" />
> 	        </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> I tried <xsl:copy-of select="@xmlns:Res" />, I got error 
> message - "Namespace prefix xmlns has not been declared".
> 
> So how can I do it in XSL ?
> 
> Any solution will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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