RE: Re: Copying nodes from other than the input file

I guess your document uses namespaces, so you need to use a path such as


  document(MetaData/Technical/Location)/x:html/x:head

where the prefix x is assigned to the appropriate namespace.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> Maik Stührenberg
> Sent: 06 August 2002 08:42
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> Subject: Re: Re:  Copying nodes from other than the input file
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> last week I asked for a possibility to copy nodes from a 
> second input file. 
> I tried the solution given me from Joerg Heinicke (thanks) 
> <xsl:copy-of 
> select="document(MetaData/Technical/Location)/html/head"/> 
> but it does not 
> work, neither with Saxon 6.52, 7.1 or XSLTProc.
> Using <xsl:copy-of 
> select="document(MetaData/Technical/Location)"/> works 
> but no other XPath expression. I tested it with a valid XHTML 
> file (taken 
> from W3C pages). Any further ideas what's going wrong?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Maik Stührenberg
> 
> 
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