It's rather unorthodox to treat the presence of a namespace declaration as
significant if there are no elements or attributes in your document actually
using that namespace: this isn't the way namespaces were intended to be
used. However, it can be done:

<xsl:copy-of select="//INDEX[namespace::doc='http://xmlns.oracle.com/ku']"/>

What you can't do is to treat namespace declarations as attributes. In the
XPath data model, namespaces and attributes are quite different things, that
just happen to share a similar surface syntax.

Also: who allocated the namespace "http://xmlns.oracle.com/ku" and what does
it mean? Namespaces in "oracle.com" should (as a matter of etiquette and
good design practice) be allocated only by Oracle Corp as the owner of the
domain name.

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


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dhanu Ubale [mailto:dhanu.u@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 23 April 2007 12:40
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  xmlns attr for element nodes creating problem with xslt
> 
>  Hi all,
> I m facing a small issue. I have a xml file for which i have 
> written a xsl file to transform to another xml(demo.xml).I am 
> not able to select the nodes which have xmlns attribute. Can 
> u tell me what has to be done.Snapshot of files:
> xml file:
> <ROWSET>
> <ROW>
> <INDEX version="1.0" >
> <SCHEMA>AD Design</SCHEMA>
> <NAME>AD_FILES_N1I</NAME>
> </INDEX>
> <INDEX version="1.0" xmlns:doc="http://xmlns.oracle.com/ku">
> <SCHEMA>AD Design</SCHEMA>
> <NAME>AD_FILES_N1I</NAME>
> </INDEX>
> </ROWSET>
> </ROW>
> 
> xsl File
> 
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
> <xsl:stylesheet 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
> version="1.0"> <xsl:output method="xml"/> <xsl:template 
> match="/ROWSET"> <xsl:apply-templates select="ROW/INDEX"/> 
> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="ROW/INDEX"> <xsl:copy-of 
> select="."/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> O/P xml:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <INDEX version="1.0" >
> <SCHEMA>AD Design</SCHEMA>
> <NAME>AD_FILES_N1I</NAME>
> </INDEX>