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XPath when a root node and element have different Name Space attributes

Answer 1

A:

Given the following xml:

<OuterElem  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:test="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance1" xmlns:test1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance1"&gt;
<test:parent>
    <test1:child1>blabla1</test1:child1>
    <test1:child2>blabla2</test1:child2>
    <test:child2>blabla3</test:child2>
</test:parent>
<test1:child1>blabla4</test1:child1>
</OuterElem>

the following xslt (xslt 1.0) copies all nodes except "test:parent/test1:child1":

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"  xmlns:test="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance1" xmlns:test1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance1"&gt;
    <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
        <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="test:parent/test1:child1"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The result will be:

<OuterElem xmlns:test="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance1" xmlns:test1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"&gt;
    <test:parent>
        <test1:child2>blabla2</test1:child2>
        <test:child2>blabla3</test:child2>
    </test:parent>
    <test1:child1>blabla4</test1:child1>
</OuterElem>

Ando 2010-06-08 13:33:23

This is not an XSLT question, therefore your answer is not what is wanted.

Dimitre Novatchev 2010-06-08 19:34:39

@ dimitre: If you look at the examples you will see the 2 namespace bindings and the way to specify the xpath to a node belonging to 2 different namespaces: "test:parent/test1:child1" - so I would say it does answer the question

Ando 2010-06-08 20:34:57

Answer 2

+1 A:

There are two different ways to construct the needed XPath expression:

Define a second namespace binding with NamespaceManager, say ns2: bound to http://www.notsample.com. Then use:

/*/ns:body/ns2:Child/ns2:element

Don't use namespaces at all:

/*/*[name()='body']/*[name()='Child']/*[name()='element']

Dimitre Novatchev 2010-06-08 19:33:20

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