Re: IE does not comprehend default namespace in XML

Hi All,
I am using an XSLT to parse an XML to produce a text file. The issue is tha=
t if I use the Internet Explorer to open this xml, it does not render anyth=
ing except the hardcoded text that I have in the XSLT, when I have the xmln=
s=3D"www.ncr.com/ocz" attribute in the root node of the xml. As soon as I r=
emove this attibute, it works fine and the xslt gets applied. I need to kee=
p this attribute in the xml as I have an XSD for this xml and thus need thi=
s default namespace in xml.

If I have read your example correctly (some email encoding
issues made that harder than usual), you have an XML
element whose namespace is "www.ncr.com/ocz" and whose
local name is "model".

First, note that the namespace name you give is a relative
URI.  Strictly speaking the various XML-related specifications
do not define what happens when relative URIs are used as
namespace names; in particular, they do not have a defined
XML infoset.

So the first thing I'd try is using "http://www.ncr.com/ocz"
or some other absolute URI as the namespace name.

Second, are you confident that your XSLT stylesheet has
a match for an element named "model" in the namespace
"www.ncr.com/ocz"?  If the template match attributes match
"model" and so on, they won't fire for {www.ncr.com/ocz}model
and the other elements in your document.

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