Re: Namespaces

> Anyway, the dtd is here:

wherein we find:

<!ENTITY % ESJA.xmlns       "'http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd'" >

<!ENTITY % top-level.att
               "xmlns           CDATA               #FIXED  %ESJA.xmlns;

which means that every element is in http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd
(or at least i assume that applies to every element, I didn't actually
read much of the dtd)

Assuming that's right it means that a source element that looks like
<title>
is really
<title xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd">
which means that a match of "title" or a select of /foo/bar/title
will not find it, as they are looking for no-namespace.
 you need on teh xsl:stylesheet element

xmlns:e="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd"

(or any other prefix that is free if e: is taken)

then have

match="e:title"
select="/e:foo/e:/bar/e:/title"
etc.

In XPath 1 you have to prefix any elements in a namespace.

Xpath/xslt2 drafts  allow you to say that the default namespace for
Xpath is "http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ja/dtd" then your original would
work, but XSLT2 is not yet a done deal.

David

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