Re: XSLT2 variables / nodesets and their namespace

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 12:10, David Carlisle wrote:
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> You didn't say what your source looked like but perhaps your problem
> isn't about generating elements at all but with selecting elements:
> one example had
>       <xsl:copy-of select="head/*"/>
> the other had
>       <xsl:copy-of select="f:head/*"/>
> 
> the first one selects a head element in no-namespace the second selects
> an element head in the xhtml namespace. Which element does your source
> file have?

The obvious question! Most of the problems I had were immediately fixed
by setting the source's namespace to the xhtml one. Clearly my brain
wasn't working last night - only succeeded in confusing myself (and
possibly others...)

> In XSLT1 you have no alternative but to use prefixes to select
> namespaced elements, but in xslt2 you can make teh first unprefixed form
> also select an xhtml head if you use the new
> xpath-default-namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
>  attribute on xsl:stylesheet

This is what I was missing. It works now :)

Thanks again,
Tom