You bind an explicit prefix to the namespace URI in the stylesheet

xmlns:p="namespace"

and use this prefix in the path expression

./p:document

Alternatively in XSLT 2.0 you can define default-xpath-namespace="namespace"
and this then applies to all unprefixed names in path expressions.

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

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olaf Meske [mailto:omeske@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 09 March 2005 16:34
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  How to select nodes with explicitly set 
> default namespace
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know how to select a node with the default namespace if this 
> namespace is explicitly set in the xml document. If I use any 
> other name 
> for the namespace something like namespace::document would match the 
> elemet <namespace:document> .... </namespace:document>
> and if I remove the default namespace definition from the xml 
> document 
> the match="document" does also work, but if I set the default 
> namespace 
> it doesn't.
> It doesn't match eighter if I use '':document or "":document 
> or ::document
> 
> Is there any special XPath function I have to use this?
> I use Saxon 7.9.1 and XSL 2.0.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Olaf Meske
> 
> 
> Here are the XML (minitest7.xml)
> ==============================================================
> =========
> ==============================================================
> =========
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="minitest7.xsl"?>
> <document xmlns="http://www.example.com/minitest7">
> 	<content>Test text with <b>bold</b> tags.</content>
> </document>
> 
> ==============================================================
> =========
> ==============================================================
> =========
> and the XSL (minitest7.xsl)
> ==============================================================
> =========
> ==============================================================
> =========
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> 	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> 	xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> 	xmlns="http://www.example.com/minitest7"
> 	>
> 
> 	<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" 
> indent="yes"/>
> 
> 	<xsl:template match="/">
> 	<root>
> 		<content><xsl:apply-templates 
> select="document"/></content>
> 	</root>
> 	
> 	</xsl:template>
> 
> 	<xsl:template match="document" >
> 		<doc x="doc content">
> 			<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
> 		</doc>
> 	</xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> ==============================================================
> =========
> ==============================================================
> =========