Value-of, copy-of

ok.

so awhile back we had a somewhat heated discussion of value-of/copy-of, and where the line is drawn between content and structure.

taking the discussion to heart, I evaluated my practice of using CDATA blocks to enclose data which I felt was not part of the structure, and using value-of, with disable-output-escaping="yes", and have switched some of my data to a CDATA-less layout, and I'm attempting to convert the style sheets to use copy-of.  I have the following XML (this is a small portion of it):

<?xml version="1.0"?>
	<rdf:RDF 
		xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" 
		xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" 
		xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" 
		xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/">
		<item>
			<title>Rebuilding of the website</title>
			<description>
				<p>this website has now been rebuilt.  We're using an all-css all-the-time layout.  The backend articles is now in formatted with <acronym title="Resource Description Format">RDF</acronym>, ready for syndication.</p>
			</description>
			<dc:date>2002-02-26</dc:date>
			<dc:language>en</dc:language>
			<dc:source></dc:source>
			<dc:creator></dc:creator>
			<dc:contributor>Eric</dc:contributor>
		</item>		
	</rdf:RDF>


the chunk of XSL in question is:

<div class="blurb">
<xsl:copy-of select="rss:description"/>
</div>

my problem is that the processor output is:

<div class="blurb">
<description xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/">
<p>this website has now been rebuilt.  We're using an all-css all-the-time layout.  The backend articles is now in formatted with <acronym title="Resource Description Format">RDF</acronym>, ready for syndication.</p>
</description>
</div>


I don't want it to output the <description> elements, only the content inside.

I've tried using child::rss:description  and descendant::rss:description, but I get exactly the same output.  I'm also a bit annoyed by it putting the namespace declarations in the output, but I think it's probably a simple namespace mixup.

I have the following namespaces defined in the XSL:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
	xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">


I wasn't able to find anything dealing with this value-of and copy-of issue anywhere.

I'm just learning to deal with namespaces, so bear with me!


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Eric Vitiello
Perceive Designs
<www.perceive.net>



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