Subject: Re: [xsl] Proposed syntax for namespace binding in XPath From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:05:24 +0100 |
> > Is it possible to just match on prefix, regardless of binding? eg, > > > > "foo:bar" > > > > ...will match any bar node prefixed with foo - the calling > app doesn't > > care what "foo" is bound to in the XML, as long that's the prefix. > > > > If that's possible, that would be a really useful option. > > Useful maybe, but that one would definitely be a > non-conformance with the spec....
What you can already do of course in some APIs (including saxon:evaluate-node()) is to take the namespace bindings for the XPath expression from the in-scope namespaces of a given element node. That has almost the same effect as matching on prefix, except when the source document maps multiple prefixes to the same namespace (or the same prefix to multiple namespaces). It's also open to abuse, but it works well in a situation where the XPath expression is actually held within the document to be searched.
I started replying to your previous post, but this one highlights it perfectly - given an xml document that you are applying xpaths to, why do you need to enforce the expanded qname - you effectively already have the mappings defined in the source XML - its down to user to ensure they apply the correct xpath to the correct XML - how likely is it to ever give the wrong results?
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