Joerg,
it works! :-))) I removed the default namespace from cincludeFiles.xsl as you suggested and changed the match statements in news.xsl. Further I removed the default namespace from my XML data. The elements <news> and <file> are now matched and properly displayed.
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I understand, that working without namespaces is not a good idea, *but for now* it enables me to continue my work.
Nice to hear. I played around with your stylesheets and the namespaced and prefixed version. First I can confirm the non-working. Second I found the reason for it. IMO it's a but in Xalan. If I change the select="./@path" to select="./@s:path" it works (with prefix 's' bound to you namespace uri). But AFAIK while elements should be in default namespace, attributes should not.
(CCing J.Pietschmann as I know he knows a bit about XSLT and XPath too. But I don't know if he reads more than encoding and FOP related questions. Also CCing xalan-dev as they might be interested or can tell me I'm wrong.)
To summarize it shortly: An element is created using following template
<xsl:template match="dir:file">
<xsl:element name="file">
<xsl:attribute name="path">
<xsl:value-of select="concat($path,./@name)"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>and default namespace is declared: xmlns="http://www.sevencs.com";.
In another stylesheet same default namespace is declared and additionally this namespace uri is bound to prefix s.
Following template matches, but the value-of does not work:
<xsl:template match="s:file">
<xsl:text>following file was added:</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="./@path"/>
</xsl:template>Only if I change it to @s:path it works. Is this correct??? And what's the appropriate part in the spec - always when I search for a specific answer I don't find it.
Joerg
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