[xsl] Processing types of type QName

[Dan Vint <dvint@xxxxxxxxx>]

We are considering the use of QName types for our enumerated values (code 
lists). We want to be able to determine the standard values from those 
added by members, so we want member values to be prefixed.

In theory this seems to work nice, but in XSLT it doesn't seem to allow for 
the normal processing that I would expect. I would really expect to be able 
to use name(), local-name(), etc against the text() node value but that 
doesn't seem to work. Is this something that I have to wait for v2 of XSLT?

Our code values are in the element content, so an element is of an 
enumerated type. If I use a template that matches this element, a simple 
<xsl:value-of select='.'/> gets me the code value acord:A, <xsl:value-of 
select="name(.)"/> gets me the element name of the template match 
statement. <xsl:value-of select="name(text())"/> gets a value of #text in 
Stylus studio.

I can use the starts-with() function to detect a standard prefix, and 
contains() to detect a prefix of  given value or at least the use of the 
':', but I would really like a more flexible approach and I need to be able 
to translate the prefix back into the namespace URI as well.

Any ideas?

..dan
     



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