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Re: [xslt] <html xmlns=.... > issue

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:16:27AM +0100, Joost Helberg wrote:
> ls,
> 
> I try to retrieve the title from an XHTML document using a
> stylesheet.
> Using xsltproc from libxslt-2.6.17 I get no result in case the opening
> html-element contains a xmlns spec: 
> 
>   <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
> 
> when I remove the xmlns declaration, the title is correctly printed.
> 
> I expected that in both cases the title should appear.
> 
> Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong? 

   <pattern match="title">

 won't match an xhtml:title or title in a default namespace. It's 
The most frequently asked question about the XPath spec. You must
use
  <pattern match="xhtml:title">
with a proper xhtml namespace prefix definition to catch those.

Daniel

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