RE: [xsl] how to select elements in a given namespace?

["Passin, Tom" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[Robert P. J. Day]
> 
>   [xpathtester is steadfastly refusing to be helpful since it does
> not highlight selected nodes based on attributes or namespaces.]
> 
>   from tidwell's book, if i have an excerpt from an XML file:
> 
>   <auth:author xmlns:auth=...>
>    <last-name>...
>    <first-name>...
>    <nationality>...
>    <year-of-birth>...
>    <year-of-death>...
>   </auth:author>
> 
> if i want to select all nodes in a given namespace ("auth"), it
> appears i can use:
> 
>   //namespace::auth
> 
> and while xpathtester refuses to highlight the matches, it 
> does at least
> tell me there were 6 of them.  i'm assuming that these matches are the
> auth:author element itself, and the 5 children, right?
> 
>   so what is the XPath expression to match, say, the 
> <last-name> elements
> within this namespace?
> 

Think simple ...

auth:author/last-name

("last-name" is not qualified by the "auth" namespace, while "author"
is).  OR, if the context is already set to auth:author, then simply use
last-name.

For example -

<xsl:template match='auth:author'>
	<xsl:value-of select='last-name'/>
</xsl:template>

Remember that you have to declare the "auth"  namespace - put the
declaration into the xsl:stylesheet element.

Cheers,

Tom P

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