RE: Qualified Attrib Value

Hmmm.... I'm not a fan of this idea of breaking up qualified values by
using string manipulation... It's an XPath function and doesn't really
take into consideration the fact it is qualified.

If I wanted to get the values qualified in a given namespace (e.g. they
are part of an enumeration of colors defined in a color namespace), then
using these string manipulation functions rather than taking into
consideration the namespace it was qualified in would be pretty
ineffective.

So if colors was mapped to "urn:colors" and an associated Xml Schema
defined an enumeration of possible colors, then I would rather use a
qualified means (rather than string functions) to determine if the value
was part of the appropriate namespace.

<el color="colors:red" />

Steven.

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Hi,

> How do I get the value of the "test" attrib (contains a value
> qualified
> in myprefix associated namespace) within this fragment without the
> prefix? (not using string manipulation, but proper Xpath).
> 
> <el test="myprefix:val" />

String manipulation is not part of "proper XPath"? Hmh. Anyhow,

  substring-before(el/@test, ':')

Cheers,

Santtu & Jarno

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