Can the namespace be referenced via the URI in
some manner, or is there another standard approach
to dealing with this issue?
Thanks
What you're already doing will work fine.
If you are accessing the source document with something like
<xsl:stylesheet ...
xmlns:foo="http://example.org/ns";>
...
<xsl:value-of select="/content/foo:widget"/>
...
</xsl:stylesheet>
then you'll get the <widget> child element in the namespace whose
URI is "http://example.org/ns";, regardless of what prefix is used
in the source document to refer to that namespace.
From Kay, 2nd Ed., p. 66: "Two names are considered equal if they
have the same local part [i.e. 'widget'] and the same namespace URI
[i.e. 'http://example.org/ns']. ... The prefix of a name is arbitrary
in that it does not affect comprison of names..."
Lars
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