At 2007-03-29 10:49 +0200, Abel Braaksma wrote:

and this with QNames:

//tier1/tier2/@*[not(name() = 'ns:exclude-me')]

I think someone should make the observation that the above test is not namespace-safe.

If you wanted to base the test on the stylesheet use of the "ns" prefix, one could do:

//tier1/tier2/@*[not(local-name()='exclude-me' and
                     namespace-uri()=document('')/*/namespace::ns)]

I suppose you could even use the principle of union in:

//tier1/tier2/@*[not(../@ns:exclude-me and
                     count(.|../@ns:exclude-me)=1)]

Any one of those three above would allow the namespace prefix used in the input instance for the stylesheet "ns" namespace.

I do think your proffered solution for QNames is not appropriate.