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> I believe that in its most general form this problem doesn't have a > pure XPath 1.0 solution (though it is easy if we are allowed to use > XSLT 1.0). > > We either need the feature of range variables, or the feature of being > able to specify a function call as the last location step in a path > expression. > I came to the same conclusion, though Ibm always reluctant to say that somethingbs impossible. Essentially you need to examine the namespace nodes to map the prefix to a URI, and that involves a join, and joins are restricted in XPath 1.0 by the absence of range variables - XPath 1.0 is not brelationally completeb in Coddbs sense. Michael Kay Saxonica
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