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RE: a namespace problem
- From: "Bryan Rasmussen" <bry at itnisk dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:36:07 +0200
- Subject: RE: [xsl] a namespace problem
- Keywords: xsltDEV
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
>The short of it: XPath does not consider namespace prefixes, but rather
>URIs when comparing elements...
>In XPath match expressions without a prefix are considered to be a NULL
>(not default) namespace. So for both of the above two documents:
jeez I forgot about that, I read it once long ago and figured it was never
gonna become important in my life :) now it is :(
>To get what you expect, simply choose an
>arbitrary namespace prefix for your default namespace, and use that in
>expressions...
would be counter-productive to go through the trouble of doing that as I'm
gonna be downloading the rss periodically.
Darn I just know it's gonna turn out having to be something with matching
against the local-name().
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