XPaths are namespace-aware. If you want to reference a node that's in a
namespace, the XPath must use a prefix bound to that namespace. (XPath 2.0
is introducing the ability to set a default namespace for an XPath, I
believe, but Xalan doesn't support that yet.)
The alternative -- which is VERY bad practice -- is to match on node type
with predicates to test the node's local name, thus bypassing namespace
sensitivity.
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Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more.
"The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the day Tim Berners Lee
got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin, in r.m.filk
