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Finding the ancestor that declared a namespace?
- From: "Roger L. Costello" <costello at mitre dot org>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Cc: "Costello,Roger L." <costello at mitre dot org>
- Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 17:12:31 -0400
- Subject: [xsl] Finding the ancestor that declared a namespace?
- Organization: The MITRE Corporation
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Hi Folks,
I would like to see if someone has an elegant solution to this problem:
Suppose that my stylesheet template is situated at an element with a
namespace qualifier, e.g.,
<bk:Book>
I would like to find the element which declared the bk: namespace
qualifier. Further, I want the first ancestor element that declared
bk: For example, with this document:
<bk:BookStore xmlns:bk="http://www.amazon.com">
<bk:Category xmlns:bk="http://www.book-category.com">
<bk:Book>
The XPath expression should give me the bk:Category element. Here's my
attempt (which didn't work):
<xsl:variable name="ns-elmt"
select="ancestor::*[name(@.)='xmlns:bk'][1]"/>
This yielded no value for ns-elmt. Any ideas? /Roger
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