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Re: Matching nodes in the default namespace
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- Subject: Re: Matching nodes in the default namespace
- From: "John E. Simpson" <simpson at polaris dot net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:23:03 -0400
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Thanks, David. Still a little confused, though....
At 08:00 PM 09/28/2000 +0000, David Carlisle wrote:
> Here's the XML:
> <catalog xmlns="http://www.example.com/catalog/">
> <book id="bk101">
> <author>Some author</author>
> <title>Some Title</title>
>...
>
>so that is the same input to XSL as
>
> <c:catalog xmlns:c="http://www.example.com/catalog/">
> <c:book id="bk101">
> <c:author>Some author</c:author>
> <c:title>Some Title</c:title>
Sure, I can understand that it's "the same" logically. But it's not the
same *lexically*, is it? I mean lexically when referred to by the XSLT
processor:
"c:" != ""
> And here's test.xsl:
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" >
> ....
> <xsl:template match="catalog">
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
>
>and thatmatches an element called catalog in the null namespace (or as
>the namespace rec calls it, not in a namespace at all)
>
>You want to match
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"
> xmlns:c="http://www.example.com/catalog/"
> exclude-result-prefixes="c">
> ....
> <xsl:template match="c:catalog">
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
>
>even if your source file is using "http://www.example.com/catalog/" as
>the default namespace.
I tried this and, as you know, it works. Amazing. I would *never* have
expected an attribute named "exclude-result-prefixes" to, as it were,
affect the way the source tree is perceived in match/select expressions;
literal result elements, yes, but not match/select expressions.
Thank you once again. Subtle indeed are the ways of the language.
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