Actually someone disabled namespace awareness in the code....
So everything is ok now, thnx for the help!

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt
<STAMMW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Michecl,
>
> which version ov xalan do you use?
> For me everything is fine with 2.7.1:
>
> $ java -jar ../xalan-j_2_7_1/xalan.jar -XSL xform.xsl -IN data.xml ; echo
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><test>namespace</test>
> $
>
>
> Mit besten Gruessen / Best wishes,
>
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm doing a transform in Xalan but can't pull out a result when using
> namespaces. Am I doing something wrong or is this a known issue?
>
> XML
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <didl:DIDL xmlns:didl="urn:mpeg:mpeg21:2002:02-DIDL-NS">
>    <didl:Item>
>        <didl:Descriptor>
>            <didl:Statement mimeType="application/xml">
>                <dii:Identifier
> xmlns:dii="urn:mpeg:mpeg21:2002:01-DII-NS">namespace</dii:Identifier>
>            </didl:Statement>
>        </didl:Descriptor>
>    </didl:Item>
> </didl:DIDL>
>
> XSL
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="
> http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
>  xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
> xmlns:didl="urn:mpeg:mpeg21:2002:02-DIDL-NS"
>  xmlns:dii="urn:mpeg:mpeg21:2002:01-DII-NS"
> xmlns:dip="urn:mpeg:mpeg21:2005:01-DIP-NS"
>  xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/"
> xmlns:mod="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3"
>  xmlns:dai2="info:eu-repo/dai"
> xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
>  xmlns:wmp="http://www.surfgroepen.nl/werkgroepmetadataplus"
>  exclude-result-prefixes="mod dai2 didl dc oai_dc dcterms dii dip xsi rdf
> wmp">
>  <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />
>  <xsl:template match="/">
>    <test>
>                                 <xsl:apply-templates
> select="/didl:DIDL/didl:Item/didl:Descriptor/didl:Statement/dii:Identifier"
> />
>    </test>
>  </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> This will only give me
>
> <test/>
>
> and not
>
> <text>namespace</test>
>
> Works under Saxon though.
>
> Thnx Michel