You're talking about namespace resolvers - does that mean you are trying to
do this in Java, rather than in XPath/XSLT? In that case, it depends on the
object model you are using: DOM, XOM, JDOM? - and should probably be asked
on a different list. More info needed.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ramkumar Menon [mailto:ramkumar.menon@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 23 September 2005 09:53
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  resolving namespace for attribute content with a QName
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>   I was trying to parse a simple Document before invoking an XSLT
> using  JAXP APIs.
>   The XML has roughly the following structure
>   ......
>   <customer idName="tns:customerId"  
> xmlns:tns="http://abcd.org">Sample Customer</customer>
>   .....
> 
> Here, i need to resolve the namespace for customerId.. I want to do
> this in a parser independant way. How do i achieve this ? Basically,
> how do i generically get the namespace resolver irrespective of a
> parser impl ?
> 
> rgds,
> menon
> 
> 
> 
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> -Ramkumar Menon
>  A typical Macroprocessor