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> How do I reliably match the "elem" element in both of the below > documents: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8?> > <p:example xmlns:p="something"> > <elem>value</elem> > </p:example> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8?> > <p:example xmlns:p="something"> > <p:elem>value</p:elem> > </p:example> > > I believe that these are effectively identical as the prefix > on elem in the latter case is redundant and same the > namespace definition is inherited from p:example. Wrong. In the first case elem is in no namespace, in the second case elem is in the "something" namespace. So any code that wants to match has to test for two different element names. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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