RE: namespace issue?

> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Case
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 9:52 PM
> To: xsl-list
> Subject:  namespace issue?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a document with a first (mother-of-all-elements :-) in the
> following format:
> 
> <DDDefinition xmlns="http://www.myside.site/ccc/ddd"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.myside.site/ccc/ddd mySchema.xsd">
> 
> I have an xslt which is processing this document and fails.  Here is a
> part of it:
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet
>    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>    version="1.0"
> >
> 
> <!-- Root Element -->
> <xsl:template match="/">
>    <xsl:apply-templates select="DDDefinition"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="DDDefinition">
>   <DDDefinition xmlns="http://www.myside.site/ccc/ddd" 
>                 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
>                 xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.myside.site/ccc/ddd
> mySchema.xsd">
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="NextLevel"/>
>   </DDDefinition>
> </xsl:template>
> ... stuff deleted
> 
> My question is, why, if I remove all the xmlns and xsi parts of the
> source document, then xsl:template match="DDDefinition" works, but with
> them in, the xslt does not "see" the DDDefinition element.  Shouldn't
> xslt be able to see all elements, regardless of namespace?

No, it shouldn't.

See <http://www.greenbytes.de/xmlfaq.html#ANSWER-xslt-vs-namespaces>.

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