David Carlisle wrote:

>or to know the prefix used for http://www.example.com.ns use 
>name(namespace::*[.='http://www.example.com.ns'])

Thanks David for giving a great solution that quickly - it's working
flawlessly here.

Best of all, I even think I understand why that would work after reading
up thoroughly again on the definition of namespace nodes, their expanded-
name, local part and their string-value...

Regards, Christian,