RE: Creating namespace nodes

ach yes - he fixed version of the example:

XML:
<example>
	<start-here xmlns:bar="www.super.org/bb" type="bar:foo"/>

	<types xmlns:aa="www.super.org/aa" xmlns:bb="www.super.org/bb">
		<type name="aa:foo"/>
		<type name="bb:foo"/>
	</types>
</example>

XSLT:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
	<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" />

	<xsl:templare match="/">
		<xsl:apply-templates select="//start-here"/>
	</xsl:templare">

	<xsl:templare match="start-here">
		<xsl:copy-of select="//type[ @name=current()/@type ]"/>
			<!-- this will NOT select what I really mean -
the //type[@name="bb:foo"] element -->
	</xsl:templare">
</xsl:stylesheet>

The idea is: you use qnames in attribute values for referencing elements
in XML.
The "prefix" bar in in the start-here/@type cannot represent the real
namespace xmlns:bar="www.super.org/aa"
The relevant namespaces are defined in scope of particular elements.

This type of namespace abuse in attribute values is in WSDL 1.0..

tomi


-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 2:51 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Creating namespace nodes

  <xsl:templare match="xx">
  <xsl:templare match="xx">
  	<!-- this will NOT select what I really mean - the
  //type[@name="bb:foo"] element -->

sorry your sample input doesn't have an xx element 9so I'm not sure
where you want this remplate to run. In particular I don't know what
namespaces are in scope at that point. Also you didn't really say what
you did mean. No  element in your example input had a type attribute.

David

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