RE: [xsl] simpler matching of qnames in content?

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I imagine that your

build-QName-from-the-context-of-XPath-processor('wsa:foo')

is just 

xs:QName('wsa:foo')

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Downey [mailto:paul.downey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 05 December 2005 10:14
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] simpler matching of qnames in content?
> 
> 
> I'm building a series of XPath 2.0 tests to check the validity
> of SOAP messages (I'm using a Saxon 8.3 processor).
> 
> I'm testing content containing a qname, e.g.:
> 
>   <env:Envelope
>     xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";
>     xmlns:addr="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing";>
>     <env:Header>
>       <addr:QNameRef>addr:foo</addr:QNameRef>
>       ...
> 
> 
> and I've a bunch of XPaths in my stylesheet which look like:
> 
>    resolve-QName(soap11:Envelope/soap11:Header/wsa:QNameRef,
> 	soap11:Envelope/soap11:Header/wsa:QNameRef)
> 
>    = QName('http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing', 'foo')
> 
> 
> and work fine, but are a bit wordy.
> 
> given that the prefixes 'soap11', 'wsa', etc are already known to
> the XPath processor, is there a way of saying:
> 
>    resolve-QName(soap11:Envelope/soap11:Header/wsa:QNameRef,
> 	soap11:Envelope/soap11:Header/wsa:QNameRef)
> 
>    = build-QName-from-the-context-of-XPath-processor('wsa:foo')
> 
> or even
> 
>    resolve-QName(soap11:Envelope/soap11:Header/wsa:QNameRef, .)
>         = build-QName('wsa:foo')
> 
> I guess if not, I could resort to using entities to save duplication,
> but can see that getting messy too.
> 
> TIA
> Paul
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