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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