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> > Is it possible to just match on prefix, regardless of binding? eg, > > > > "foo:bar" > > > > ...will match any bar node prefixed with foo - the calling > app doesn't > > care what "foo" is bound to in the XML, as long that's the prefix. > > > > If that's possible, that would be a really useful option. > > Useful maybe, but that one would definitely be a > non-conformance with the spec.... What you can already do of course in some APIs (including saxon:evaluate-node()) is to take the namespace bindings for the XPath expression from the in-scope namespaces of a given element node. That has almost the same effect as matching on prefix, except when the source document maps multiple prefixes to the same namespace (or the same prefix to multiple namespaces). It's also open to abuse, but it works well in a situation where the XPath expression is actually held within the document to be searched. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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