RE: how to select elements in a given namespace?

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 David.Cantrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > >   so what is the XPath expression to match, say, the
> > > <last-name> elements
> > > within this namespace?
> > 
> >   <xsl:stylesheet ...
> > 	xmlns:auth="http://whatever.auth.org'>
> >   ...
> >      select="//auth:last-name"
> > 
> > 
> > But as mentioned above, there is no such node in your XML 
> > fragment. The <last-name> element is in no namespace, unless 
> > you've declared a default namespace somewhere.
> 
> Shouldn't this work then?
> 
> 	//last-name

sigh ... yup, that found it.  i got my namespace scopes confused.
time to go back and do some more reading.  thanks.

but that still doesn't explain xpathtester's refusal to produce
a solution as described in tidwell.  strange. 


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