Re: [xsl] Namespaces

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2003-06-09 14:16 -0400, David Totten wrote:
> Given the following xml,
> ...
> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//ES//DTD journal article DTD version
> 5.0.1//EN//XML" "art501/art501.dtd">
> <article docsubtype="fla" xml:lang="en">

You don't show your DTD, but I'm guessing the declarations for <article> 
include a default namespace declaration.

> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>     xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd";
>     xmlns:sb="http://www.elsevier.com/common/struct-bib/dtd";
>     xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";>
> ...
>         <TITLE>
>           <xsl:value-of select="article/item-info/ce:pii"/>
>         </TITLE>
> ...
> I would love to know how to get a value for my <TITLE> tag. What am I doing
> wrong, or misunderstanding?

Perhaps you are forgetting that unprefixed names in XPath 1.0 expressions 
do not utilize the default namespace and are always assumed to be in no 
namespace ... even if your source document is using the default namespace.

If an element in your source node tree is using any namespace, you are 
obliged to prefix the node name in XPath 1.0 expressions.

I hope this helps.

............... Ken



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