"Mark D. Anderson" wrote:
> 
> --On Monday, January 17, 2000 11:23 AM +0000 David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > No, name() gives the literal prefixed name from the source.
> 
> and Michael Kay agrees:
> >Generally speaking, it's best to avoid testing the result of the name()
> >function, because two XML documents that are equivalent except for their
> >choice of namespace prefixes will give different answers. Using
> >"not(self::element3)" is safer.

So am I missing something here?  I get errors in processing when I have:

<xsl:template match="my:root">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="not(self::my:element)" />
</xsl:template>

on the following document:

<my:root xmlns:my="http://myurl.com">
  <my:element />
  <my:otherElement />
</my:root>

-Brett


> 
> Damn, I wasn't aware of this.
> 
> So:
> 
> - if you have an expanded name which is a literal, and you want to
> match only on that name in that namespace, then use self::
>    xmlns:myprefix = urn:some-uri
>    ...
>    [self::myprefix:el] <!-- if desired node has a namespace which myprefix expands to -->
>    [self::el] <!-- if desired node has no namespace -->
> 
> - if you want to match any element which has a particular local name,
> regardless of namespace, use local-name():
>    [local-name() = 'el']
> 
> - if you want to match a local name against a variable, that is easy:
>    <xsl:variable name="local_elname" select="'el'"/>
>    ...
>    [local-name() = $local_elname]
> 
> - if you want to match an expanded name against a variable, that is hard:
>    <xsl:variable name="local_elname" select="'el'"/>
>    <xsl:variable name="ns_el" select="'urn:some-uri'"/>
>    ...
>    [local-name() = $local_elname and namespace-uri() = $ns_el]
> 
> - if you want to match qnames, that is easy but not what you want:
>    <xsl:variable name="q_elname" select="'myprefix:el'"/>
>    ...
>    [name() = $q_elname]
> 
> Did i get that right?
> 
> -mda
> 
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