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RE: namespace issue?
- From: "Julian Reschke" <julian dot reschke at gmx dot de>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:22:19 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] namespace issue?
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> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Michael Case
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 9:52 PM
> To: xsl-list
> Subject: [xsl] namespace issue?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a document with a first (mother-of-all-elements :-) in the
> following format:
>
> <DDDefinition xmlns="http://www.myside.site/ccc/ddd"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.myside.site/ccc/ddd mySchema.xsd">
>
> I have an xslt which is processing this document and fails. Here is a
> part of it:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="1.0"
> >
>
> <!-- Root Element -->
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="DDDefinition"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="DDDefinition">
> <DDDefinition xmlns="http://www.myside.site/ccc/ddd"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.myside.site/ccc/ddd
> mySchema.xsd">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="NextLevel"/>
> </DDDefinition>
> </xsl:template>
> ... stuff deleted
>
> My question is, why, if I remove all the xmlns and xsi parts of the
> source document, then xsl:template match="DDDefinition" works, but with
> them in, the xslt does not "see" the DDDefinition element. Shouldn't
> xslt be able to see all elements, regardless of namespace?
No, it shouldn't.
See <http://www.greenbytes.de/xmlfaq.html#ANSWER-xslt-vs-namespaces>.
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