Re: [xsl] How to move the namespaces onto the root element when there is a namespace prefix that is bound to different namespaces?

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

> The prefix-from-QName() function can be useful when used in
> combination with the node-name($arg as node()?) function that returns
> a QName from the node passed as a parameter (or just the context node
> in XPath 3.0) to the function. So, for example, you could use:
>
> prefix-from-QName(node-name($node))
>

Oh, I see... So this is why we have node-name() in addition to name().

Thank you, Phil.




On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Philip Fearon <pgfearo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I wanted to use the function:
>>
>>     prefix-from-QName()
>>
>> however it requires an xs:QName as argument and an xs:QName
>> constructor only accepts *literal* strings as arguments.
>>
>> The question arizes then: What is the above function useful for?
>>
> The prefix-from-QName() function can be useful when used in
> combination with the node-name($arg as node()?) function that returns
> a QName from the node passed as a parameter (or just the context node
> in XPath 3.0) to the function. So, for example, you could use:
>
> prefix-from-QName(node-name($node))
>
> -----
> Phil
>



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