RE: Find the root element from an attribute node

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Subject: RE: Find the root element from an attribute node
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:23:26 -0400

At 2008-07-11 16:15 +0100, Marroc wrote:

Document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="file:/c:/SSPub/15/17/System/xhtml/css/xhtml.css"
type="text/css"?>
<!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM
"file:/c:/SSPub/15/17/System/xhtml/dtd/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

My mailer ate the rest of your message so I cannot read it.

Xsl:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
        <xsl:template match="/html">
                Boo to a goose
        </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Is there a way to say "any namespace"?

Since you are using XSLT 2: match="/*:html"

Why isn't that the default?

Because there would be no other way to say "the element <html> in no namespace".

This convention for no prefix has been true since XSLT was standardized in 1999 ... the new syntax for match patterns of "*:name" is new with XSLT 2.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . Ken

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RE: Find the root element from an attribute node, (continued)
- Michael Kay - 10 Jul 2008 14:00:23 -0000
  - Marroc - 11 Jul 2008 15:14:27 -0000
    - Andrew Welch - 11 Jul 2008 15:20:09 -0000
    - Martin Honnen - 11 Jul 2008 15:22:50 -0000
    - G. Ken Holman - 11 Jul 2008 15:23:54 -0000 <=
    - Michael Kay - 11 Jul 2008 15:37:38 -0000
    - Vladimir Nesterovsky - 11 Jul 2008 15:39:42 -0000
    - Marroc - 11 Jul 2008 16:46:47 -0000
- vladimir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - 10 Jul 2008 15:23:37 -0000

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