[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Name Spaces in Selects and xsl:element
XPath considers the namespace to be an integral part of the name so "field in namespace1" is no more related to "field in namespace2" than it is to "lksfhaskhfashfd in namespace 1". There are good reasons for this: the documentred reason for introducing the whole namespace complication is so that your "p" element is completely different from my "p" element. So to say you want to match on eny element called p whatever namespace it is in is like saying you want to match on any element whose name begins with W. You can do both of those, but not with the short syntax reserved for more resonable selections. *[starts-with(name(),'W')] and *[local-name()='field'] Actually sufficient numbers of peopel wantto be bad that XPath2 offers a *:field but you probably are not using XPath2 (unless you are usingsaxon8) XSLT2/XPath2 are still in draft form. David ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________
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