I am quite new to xsl . I hav problem with namespaces.
the xml file is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<set xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" >
  <dc:format>text</dc:format>
  <dc:title>ab</dc:title>
  <Type>general</Type>

  ...........


 the xsl file is

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
     xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
   <xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>

<xsl:call-template name="copyNode">
    <xsl:with-param name="Name" select="//dc:title"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:call-template name="copyNode">
        <xsl:with-param name="Name" select="//dc:format"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:call-template name="copyNode">
   <xsl:with-param name="Name" select="//Type"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="copyNode">
    <xsl:param name="Name"/>
    <xsl:if test="$Name">
        <xsl:copy-of select="$Name"/>

        <xsl:text>
        </xsl:text>
    /xsl:if>
</xsl:template>


the problem is , I am able to extract the title and format values which has a dc prefix in the namespace, but I am not able to get the
values for Type which has no dc prefix in the xml. It would be grt if someone can help me out with this

Are you sure that your source XML document doesn't contain a default namespace declaration

xmlns="something"

which would move <Type> into a different namespace?

(people often snip the very thing that's causing the trouble, because they didn't realise it was important...)



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Thanks for the quick reply. The source xml document had a default namespace declaration

 xmlns="http://purl.oclc.org/NET/EMSL/BSE" where in it is redirected to a different url.

 It doesn't seem to work with the xmlns namespace included too.

See http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N5536.html especially number 23.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)