Re: [xsl] Finding another element with the same name as the current node

Mike Kay wrote:
> Ooh, a rare mistake from Jeni, I can't resist leaping in with a correction!

Oh... piffle.  Thanks Mike :)

> name() returns a QName for the node, not an expanded name. An
> expanded name consists of a (namespace URI, local name) pair, and
> there is no defined way of expressing an expanded name as a string.

I'm sure there used to be a proposal to represent it as:

  {http://www.foo.com/}:doc

Or something similar?  Probably in one of the XML Namespaces Working
Drafts.

> A QName has the form [prefix:]local-name; the prefix will be one
> that corresponds to the namespace URI, which usually means it will
> be the same prefix as you used in your source document.

That 'usually' got me wondering. When might it not? Well, when you've
got multiple namespace declarations for the namespace, the processor
could use any one of the prefixes that are defined.

In tests, 3 out of 3 processors (MSXML, Saxon and Xalan) use the same
prefix as used in the source document, even if there are multiple
namespace declarations for the URI, and even if one of those
declarations is the default namespace.  Does anyone know of any
processors that don't?

Cheers,

Jeni

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