Side note: Preprocessing the old version and if necessary adapting the
templates for the new version...

> On 12 May 2026, at 12:33, Leo Studer leo.studer@xxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Michael
>
> As so often, your input is straight to the point, thanks.
>
> I agree, changing the namespace with a new version, what a hassle. And an
option to match a list of namespaces would be nice, indeed.
>
> Preprocessing does it easily and feels safer then copy pasting the templates
for the different namespacesb&
>
> Cheers,
> L E O
>
>
>
>> On 12 May 2026, at 10:50, Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I think there is now a consensus that changing the namespace with a new
version of a standard is a bad idea, because it causes such inconvenience; but
that doesn't help you.
>>
>> As has been mentioned, XPath 2.0 offers `*:local` to match a specific local
name in any namespace, and XPath 4.0 introduces the option to allow unprefixed
element names to match in any namespace by default. There's no option to match
a list of namespaces, though I've often thought it would be a good idea.
>>
>> There's another option which hasn't been mentioned, which is to preprocess
the source documents to standardise the namespace. That also enables you to
handle other variations in the vocabulary. Basically, use a processing
pipeline in which the first step is to normalize the vocabulary, so that
subsequent steps don't have to deal with variations.
>>
>> Michael Kay
>> Saxonica
>>
>>> On 12 May 2026, at 01:16, Leo Studer leo.studer@xxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> The bank renewed the camt54 standard.
>>>
>>> In my stylesheet I need to access old and new bank statements
simultaneously.
>>>
>>> With
xpath-default-namespace="urn:iso:std:iso:20022:tech:xsd:camt.054.001.04b my
stylesheet works for the old documents and
>>> with
xpath-default-namespace="urn:iso:std:iso:20022:tech:xsd:camt.054.001.08b it
does the job for the new documents.
>>>
>>> Is there an easy way to use either of the two namespaces so that my
stylesheet works for old and new bank statements?
>>>
>>> Thanks for caring!
>>>
>>> Yours, L E O
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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