Catching up on reading XSl-list digest I came across this one (from Marh 1st 
digest !) :-



Is there any way to have one XSLT 1.0 stylesheet handle situations where 
the XML input has different namespace declarations?

Possible solutions were offered by MK and Ken Holman, but neither mentioned 
the potential use of local-name(). 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 ?



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']">
...

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').



Fraser.