Re: [xsl] Why no namespace node KindTest?

Subject: Re: [xsl] Why no namespace node KindTest?
From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:34:14 -0700
On 8/26/06, Florent Georges <darkman_spam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi

I wonder why there is no KindTest for namepace nodes.  In
particular, we can't write something like:

if ( $arg instance of namespace() ) ...

Of course, as this is the only kind of node that doesn't
have a KindTest, it is possible to rewrite it as:

if ( $arg instance of namespace() ) ...

   if ( $item instance of node()
          and not($item instance of attribute()
                    or $item instance of comment()
                    or $item instance of document-node()
                    or $item instance of element()
                    or $item instance of processing-instruction()
                    or $item instance of text() ) ) ...


Hi Florent,


A more compact expression giving the same result is:


$item intersect $item/../namespace::*



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