Google for "XSLT default namespace" and you'll find lots of advice on this.

The short answer is: your elements are in a namespace, so to select them you
need to use prefixed names in your match patterns and path expressions, with
a prefix (any prefix will do) that's bound to that namespace.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Lo Nigro [mailto:dansoftaus@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 26 April 2007 12:27
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  XSLT Newbie - Need help with DOCTYPE, 
> namespaces, and stuff
> 
> Hi everyone,
>  I'm making a XSLT stylesheet for XML files for SMF
> (simplemachines.org) modifications. Even though the XSLT 
> stylesheet looks correct, it doesn't seem to work with the 
> XML files. However, when I comment out the doctype (and 
> remove the xmlns="" from the root element), the XSLT 
> stylesheet works fine.
> 
> Here's what the XML file looks like normally:
> ===
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet href="package-info.xsl"
> type="text/xsl"?>
> <!DOCTYPE package-info SYSTEM
> "http://www.simplemachines.org/xml/package-info">
> 
> <package-info
> xmlns="http://www.simplemachines.org/xml/package-info"
> xmlns:smf="http://www.simplemachines.org/">
> 	...
> </package-info>
> ===
> 
> And here's how I edited it to make it work:
> ===
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet href="package-info.xsl"
> type="text/xsl"?>
> 
> <package-info>
> 	...
> </package-info>
> ===
> 
> My question is, how do I make it work with XML files that 
> have the doctype and xmlns defined?
> 
> The XSLT stylesheet was originally made using Dreamweaver 8, 
> but I eventually recoded most of it in a plain text editor.
> 
> XSLT stylesheet:
> http://server.daniel15.com/smf/xml/xslt/package-info.xsl
> Working XML file:
> http://dev.dansoftaustralia.net/svn/modparser/trunk/xslt/packa
> ge-info.xml
> Non-working XML file:
> http://dev.dansoftaustralia.net/svn/modparser/trunk/xslt/packa
> ge-info2.xml
> 
> Thanks :)
>  -- Daniel15
> 
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