Re: [xsl] with or without namespace

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

ac wrote:

> To process these elements irrespective of their namespace, I can use
> expressions like
> *[local-name(.) = "a"] and *[local-name(.) = "b"]
> all through the stylesheet but, in the stylesheet, I would much rather
> map everything to the same namespace (possibly to default- or
> no-namespace) and either use a single prefix, or better still, no
> prefix, all over the stylesheet, to refer to all or any of these elements.
> /xx:a, /xx:b, or /a , /b, for example
> What would be the best way to declare the stylesheet namespaces to
> achieve this, if possible?

With XSLT/XPath 2.0 you are allowed to use
  /*:a, /*:b
to select elements with local name 'a' respectively 'b' in any namespace 
(including no namespace).

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