I went through agonies making sure that you could follow the parent axis
correctly from a namespace node, thinking that the code would only ever by
used by conformance tests... Nice to know I was wrong.

Michael Kay 
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Cristian Bina [mailto:george@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 11 September 2004 08:00
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Namespace problem
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If you rewrite
> 
>  > <xsl:value-of
>  > 
> select="namespace::*[starts-with(name(),substring-before(paren
t::node()/@nam
>  > e,':'))]"/>
> 
> as
> 
> <xsl:value-of 
> select="namespace::*[starts-with(name(),substring-before(curre
nt()/parent::node()/@name,':'))]"/>
> 
> or as
> 
> <xsl:variable name="prefix" 
> select="substring-before(parent::node()/@name,':')"/>
>                  <xsl:value-of 
> select="namespace::*[starts-with(name(),$prefix)]"/>
> 
> then Xalan will give the expected result.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> George
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> 
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