Re: [xsl] Required item type of first operand of '/' is node(); supplied value has item type xs:string

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/04/2010 14:49, Jacobus Reyneke wrote:
> Thank you very much Martin and Michael. I think I understand it now.
>
> As always it is astonishing how helpful you gentleman are. Thanks again.
>
> If I may ask Michael, why the warning on namespaces? It's probably a
> bit nutty, but I'm currently using them as a way to highlight my XML!
>
> Kind regards,
> Jacobus


th ewarning about namespaces is because testing the element name as a 
string is not namespace aware.

If you select "x:foo" then it will select that element whatever prefix 
is used in the source, but if you go
<xsl:variable name="x" select="'x:foo'"/>
select="*[name()=$x]"
then it will only work correctly if the namespace bindings in the source 
are the same as those in the stylesheet as it will (only) match any 
element with name 'x:foo' whatever namespace x is bound to in that 
elements context,

David

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