Re: Namespace conflicts processing Word documents

Syntactically, yes. Semantically, a paragraph is a paragraph is a paragraph (unless it's a heading, or a list item -- but those are just qualified paragraphs in Word :-)
...
Right, so I can have two otherwise identical stylesheets, one declaring the WordML w: namespace and the other declaring the OOXML w: namespace, with both using the identical
<xsl:template match="w:p[w:pPr[w:pStyle[@w:val='Heading1']]]">
<h1><xsl:apply-templates/></h1>
</xsl:template>
but I can't have a shell stylesheet for each namespace which both import/include the template code from a common (shared) file, because (a) namespaces don't get inherited into imports/includes, and (b) the common file will necessarily lack any namespace declaration for w: and will therefore not be well-formed.

OK. So long as I wasn't missing a trick there.

   <xsl:template match="*:p[*:pPr[*:pStyle[@*:val='Heading1']]]">
     <h1><xsl:apply-templates/></h1>
   </xsl:template>

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