I thought I had namespaces sorted out in my head until this weekend when I
tried to work with the xhtml output from tidy. What I did work out was that
 <ROOTELEMENT xmlns="http://www.somewhere.com/mynamespace"> doesn't get you
the default namespace so nothing matches.
 <ROOTELEMENT xmlns:="http://www.somewhere.com/mynamespace"> will get the
default namespace. But could i get tidy to output that.... I also found that
the dtd specified by tidy doesn't exist at w3 but that is a different story.

ciao Chris

>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Elliotte Rusty
>Harold
>Sent: 19 December 1999 22:34
>To: xsl-list
>Subject: Templates aplied to namespaces
>
>
>I have an input document that looks like this:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
><ROOTELEMENT xmlns="http://www.somewhere.com/mynamespace">
> <ERRORCODE>0</ERRORCODE>
> <BOOKLIST>
> <BOOK>
>  <title>Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog!</title>
>  <isbn>0140012133</isbn>
> </BOOK>
> <BOOK>
>  <title>Catch-22</title>
>  <isbn>0684833395</isbn>
> </BOOK>
> </BOOKLIST>
></ROOTELEMENT>
>
>The particular issue is that it uses the default namespace on its
>elements but no prefix. I'm having a devil of a time getting a template
>in the XSLT stylesheet to match up with anything by its name, either
>with or without a prefix. Everything works fine if I remove the
>namespace declaration from the input document. However declaring the
>namespace in the stylesheet, with or without a prefix, doesn't seem to
>help.
>
>I'm using xt. Does anyone have any suggestions; for instance a template
>rule that would match a title element in the above document? Thanks.
>
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