RE: Ignore namespaces

Filipe:
> Now I want to use an XML document with namespaces in some of its
> elements but those namespaces should be ignored by the XSL and the
> elements processed as if no namespace existed.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this?

Jeni:
>Unfortunately not in XSLT 1.0. As far as XPath and XSLT are concerned,
>an element with a namespace is completely different from an element
>without a namespace. To change an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet from working
>over a source document without namespaces to one with, you have to
>change every XPath that refers to elements that now have a namespace,
>so that they include prefixes pointing to that namespace.

sorry to join thread half-way....

Is it not possible to do an indentity transform first to remove the
namespaces on the nodes, then apply the usual stylesheet?

This would require two passes, but it would cater for any namespace.
Something along the lines of:

<xsl:stylesheet
	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
	version="1.0">
	
<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@*">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="node()">
  <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
  </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text()">
  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Is there anything wrong with this approach??  

cheers
andrew

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