Hi,



When you specify a NameTest in XPath 1.0 using an element name without a 
prefix then that means the element from no namespace. If you want to 
specify elements from a namespace then you need to use a prefix mapped 
to that namespace. In XSLT 2.0 you can use the xpath-default-namespace 
attribute to specify the namespace to be used for names without a prefix 
used in XPath 2.0 expressions.



If you want your stylesheet to ignore the namespace of the elements then 
use something like



*[local-name()='MyRoot']
instead of
MyRoot

in your XPath expressions.



Hope that helps,
George
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Kevin L.. Cobb wrote:
I have an XML document with a default namespace indicated at the root.
Something like this:

<MyRoot xmlns="http://www.mysite.com">
<!-- a lotta XML in here -->
</MyRoot>

My XSLT to parse the XML does not work as expected because of the
default namespace, i.e. when I remove the namespace, everyting works as
expected. All XPATH statements find their intended values. Since I don't
have control over the source XML and the included default namespace,
what should I do to my XSLT so that my XPATH expressions find their
intended values?

BTW: I'm using the XERCES parser. 



Thanks,



Kevin