Monty wrote:
> Despite reading posts in Google, I don't understand XPATH. Can someone
> help me write an XPATH. From Google I think my problem is that the
> default namespace does not have a prefix. I can't change this as I have
> received this XML and I didn't create it. All I want to is retrieve the
> PROJECTNAME from the following XML. I am typing this XML and XPATH into
> this site
> 
> http://www.activsoftware.com/xml/xpath/
> 
> The XPATH that does not work is /PROJECTS/PROJECTNAME.
> 
> Thank you
> Monty
> 
> <PROJECTS xmlns="http://www.companyname.com/project"
>       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
>       <PROJECTNAME>
>        Project A
>       </PROJECTNAME>
>       <PROJECTBUDGET>
>         27000
>       </PROJECTBUDGET>
> </PROJECTS>
> 

You have to supply namespace prefixes in xsl/xpath for default 
namespaces in xml.  It took a bit of fussing, but here's a solution:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"  >


  <xsl:template xmlns:pn="http://www.companyname.com/project" match="/">
     <xsl:apply-templates  select="pn:PROJECTS/pn:PROJECTNAME" />
     <xsl:apply-templates  select="pn:PROJECTS/pn:PROJECTBUDGET" />
    </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template  xmlns:pn="http://www.companyname.com/project" 
match="pn:PROJECTNAME">
    Project Name: <xsl:value-of select = "." /><br />
    </xsl:template>

   <xsl:template  xmlns:pn="http://www.companyname.com/project" 
match="pn:PROJECTBUDGET">
    Budget: <xsl:value-of select = "." />
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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