All your elements are in a namespace, so all the names need to be subjected to
the same treatment:

>
"/*[local-name()='nlog']/*[local-name()='rules'/*[local-name()='logger'][@wri
teTo='file']/@minlevel"

You example missed the "@" from "@writeTo".

Michael Kay
Saxonica


> On 22 Apr 2016, at 22:21, Joseph L. Casale jcasale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Well, there's always the ghastly workaround
>>
>>>> "/*[local-name() = 'nlog']/@throwExceptions"
>>
>> Over on xml-dev there are people actually defending the design of XML
namespaces. Amazing.
>
> Hi Michael,
> That worked, much appreciated. I assumed I could leverage that for the
remainder
> as well such as selecting "/nlog/targets/target[@name='file']/@fileName" or
> "/nlog/rules/logger[writeTo='file']/@minlevel" however those did not work
with
> either the above workaround or a relative expression such as
"//targets/target[@name='file']/@fileName".
>
> <nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd"
>      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>      throwExceptions="true">
>
>  <targets>
>    <target xsi:type="EventLog"
>            name="eventLog"
>            source="..."
>            layout="..." />
>    <target xsi:type="File"
>            name="file"
>            layout="..."
>            fileName="..."
>            archiveFileName="...{#}.log"
>            archiveEvery="Day"
>            archiveNumbering="Rolling"
>            maxArchiveFiles="31"
>            keepFileOpen="true" />
>  </targets>
>
>  <rules>
>    <logger name="*" minlevel="Error" writeTo="eventLog" />
>    <logger name="*" minlevel="Trace" writeTo="file" />
>  </rules>
> </nlog>
>
> By chance any other tricks up your sleeve?
>
> Thanks!
> jlc