[Robert P. J. Day]
[xpathtester is steadfastly refusing to be helpful since it does
not highlight selected nodes based on attributes or namespaces.]
from tidwell's book, if i have an excerpt from an XML file:
<auth:author xmlns:auth=...>
<last-name>...
<first-name>...
<nationality>...
<year-of-birth>...
<year-of-death>...
</auth:author>
if i want to select all nodes in a given namespace ("auth"), it
appears i can use:
//namespace::auth
and while xpathtester refuses to highlight the matches, it
does at least
tell me there were 6 of them. i'm assuming that these matches are the
auth:author element itself, and the 5 children, right?
so what is the XPath expression to match, say, the
<last-name> elements
within this namespace?
Think simple ...
auth:author/last-name
("last-name" is not qualified by the "auth" namespace, while "author"
is). OR, if the context is already set to auth:author, then simply use
last-name.
For example -
<xsl:template match='auth:author'>
<xsl:value-of select='last-name'/>
</xsl:template>
Remember that you have to declare the "auth" namespace - put the
declaration into the xsl:stylesheet element.
Cheers,
Tom P
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