Re: [xsl] Basic question about Namespace handling in XPath 1.0 (not necessarily related to XSLT)

[George Cristian Bina <george@xxxxxxx>]

> in XSLT2 you put
> default-xpath-default-namespace="...." on any xsl instruction,
--^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Just small a spelling correction, that should be xpath-default-namespace.

Best Regards,
George
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George Cristian Bina
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David Carlisle wrote:
> > Please explain more elaborately.
>
> I'll try (That used to be Jeni's job:-)
>
> >  How do you specify a 'no-namespace' (halfway) in a namespaced
> >  document
>
> add xmlns="" to the element that you want to be in no-namespace.
>
> > and how do you set the 'xpath default namespace' in Xpath2?
> In an XPath2 API, It's up to that API, in XSLT2 you put
> default-xpath-default-namespace="...." on any xsl instruction, or
> xsl:default-xpath-default-namespace="...." on any literal result element
> to change the interpretation of unprefixed element (and type) names in
> Xpath expressions within that scope.
>
>
> > > You should use them, but for controlling literal result elements in the
> > > result, not controlling xpath queries into the source.
>
> > Sometimes elements from queries are copied or are in the same namespace as the literals.
>
> Your statement is true, but I'm not sure how it relates to the original
> statement about xmlns in a stylesheet. Elements that are copied are
> unaffected by any namespace declarations in the stylesheet.
>
>
> David
>
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