At 2006-05-01 15:38 +0100, Fraser Goffin wrote:
Admittedly this may be inefficient or the document to be processed 
may be so complex that it may not be practical, but for simple 
situations it would be ok wouldn't it ?

I guess that depends on your definition of "simple".



The example docs were :-



<mydata xmlns="urn:myns">
        <mydataitem>sample data</mydataitem>
</mydata>

<mydata xmlns="urn:otherns">
        <mydataitem>sample data</mydataitem>
</mydata>

<mydata>
        <mydataitem>sample data</mydataitem>
</mydata>

Wouldn't something like this do ?? :-



<xsl:template match="*[local-name(.) = 'mydata']">
...

<xsl:template match="*[local-name(.) = 'mydataitem']">
...

It would "do" if you equated the three different vocabularies as 
being the same from an application's perspective of interpreting 
semantics associated with the vocabularies ... though a preprocessing 
step of stripping the namespaces would be more efficient.



But I see {urn:myns}mydataitem and {urn:otherns}mydataitem and 
mydataitem as three distinct labels probably identifying different 
semantics when implementing my applications detecting those labels.



We use something similar on complex documents where only the top 
level element is declared as a global type and thus has a namespace 
affiliation, all other types are local (and the schema declares 
elementFormDefault='unqualified').

If the element names are not qualified with namespaces, then you can 
just match as usual ... that's the feature of XPath in XSLT that 
trips many people up as if they thought it was a bug.  When you have:



  <xsl:template match="foo">



... you are matching foo in no namespace (not the default namespace).



I would much prefer using that than using:



  <xsl:template match="*[local-name()='foo']">



I hope this helps.



. . . . . . . . . . Ken



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