RE: newbie problem - writing XSL for an XML with names

> I've been unable to find the reason why this is happening.
> Other than the namespace, the two documents were identical,
> and The XSLT doesn't reference any namespaces (other than
> it's own), so why does it choke when there's a namespace in the file.

If your source document contains an element <item xmlns="some.uri">, then
the XPath expression <xsl:value-of select="item"/> won't match it (it will
only match an item element that's in no namespace). You need to write
<xsl:value-of select="some:item" xmlns:some="some.uri"/>

Mike Kay
Software AG


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