At 2010-11-11 18:54 +0000, Dave Pawson wrote:
input document
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<node xmlns:db='abc'>
<db:docbook xmlns="">fred</db:docbook>
</node>
ss
<xsl:template match="db:docbook">
<xsl:message>
<xsl:value-of select="for $n in in-scope-prefixes(.) return
concat('[',namespace-uri-for-prefix($n,.),']')"/> </xsl:message>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
result [http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace] [abc]
Question... what effect (seemingly none) does the
xmlns="" have?
I created this in error and sat staring at it.
Still can't get my head round it. Some sort of precedence?
No, xmlns="" is "special" in that it is the "undeclaration of the
default namespace" directive.
It takes the default namespace *out* of the in-scope namespaces,
rather than adding anything in.
In your case, it does nothing, because there was no default namespace
to take away.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . Ken
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