• To: "'Paul Spencer'" <xml-dev@b...>,"'Xml-Dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XSLT and default namespaces
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 09:25:54 +0100
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <NBBBIBMKFOFCNEBAKDPLIEDKGEAA.xml-dev@b...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> XSLT's handling of namespaces seems to be the bane of my life.

Namespaces were invented because someone was worried that XML was too
simple...

> Is it possible to extract the 
> value of the default namespace when the element to which it 
> is attached is in another namespace (as here)? I am using XSLT 1.0.


<xsl:value-of select="namespace::*[name()='']"/>

Michael Kay

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