RE: matching templates independent of namespaces

Subject: RE: matching templates independent of namespaces
From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:58:18 +0100

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mack, Daniel [mailto:d.mack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 June 2000 17:25
> To: 'XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: matching templates independent of namespaces 
> 
> 
> I'm writing some stylesheets to process xhtml documents and 
> I'm running into
> some issues with namespaces.  I'd like for the stylesheet 
> templates to match
> documents with namespace declarations in the general form of 
> 
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>   
> 
> while also matching documents that do not have an explicit namespace
> declaration and simply use tags in the form <html>.
> 
match="*[local-name(.)='html']" should work, but if there are only two
options, then
match="html | xhtml:html" is probably more efficient.

Mike Kay


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