Namespace in XML preventing XSL for-each

geordaa · February 5th, 2007, 05:42 AM

I have been given some client XML, with a namespace declared like this:
<Message>
<Person MessageId="Person" xmlns="http://www.xxx.com/SMDS">

My xsl will not find any match when I do:

<xsl:for-each select="Message/Person">

If I remove the xmlns="http://www.xxx.com/SMDS" declaration, then data is processed as expected.

Anything I need to do to process this, or do I have the get the client to remove the namespace declaration?

mhkay · February 5th, 2007, 06:14 AM

Try googling for

XSLT FAQ default namespace

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