Subject: RE: how to select elements in a given namespace?
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:58:49 -0500 (EST)
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 David.Cantrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > so what is the XPath expression to match, say, the
> > > <last-name> elements
> > > within this namespace?
> >
> > <xsl:stylesheet ...
> > xmlns:auth="http://whatever.auth.org'>
> > ...
> > select="//auth:last-name"
> >
> >
> > But as mentioned above, there is no such node in your XML
> > fragment. The <last-name> element is in no namespace, unless
> > you've declared a default namespace somewhere.
>
> Shouldn't this work then?
>
> //last-name
sigh ... yup, that found it. i got my namespace scopes confused.
time to go back and do some more reading. thanks.
but that still doesn't explain xpathtester's refusal to produce
a solution as described in tidwell. strange.
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