Hi All,

I'm trying to write a xls to transform one XML document to another. I have it working except for one case: when my input.xml has elements with a name with a colon in them.

For example:

<A>
<B:C xlmns ="">
5
</B:C>
</A>

My script tries to do something like this:

<xsl:template match="A">
<xsl:element name="Item">
<xsl:attribute name="test"><xsl:value-of select="B:C"/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

The error I keep getting is "reference to undeclared namespace prefix: 'B'". This is because its thinking that B:C is a prefix when in fact the whole name is B:C. Is there a way to escape this special character so that it parses the whole element name with a colon in it?

Thanks!

jiggs

XSLT will only work on XML input that is namespace-well-formed, which means that a name containing a colon is always treated according to the rules in the namespaces specification, whether it appears in the source document or in a stylesheet (including within an XPath expression).

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Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer\'s Reference