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Re: [xsl] XML source with DOCTYPE declaration

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> It's really hard to believe that such a 'trivial' thing is causing such
> 'sophisticated' stylesheets!!  :(

XSLT isn't really designed to correct source files that have this error.
The source files for XHTML documents should have the namespace
specified. Then your stylesheet wouldn't have this problem.

If you want to make a template match on two elements, one called xxx and
one called yyy then you have to do either

<xsl:template match="xxx|yyy">

or

<xsl:template match="*[local-name()='xxx' or local-name()='yyy']">

This is the case you are in, you want to match against an element called
html in the XHTML namespace and an element called html in no namespace.

For a namespace aware processor these are just completely different
elements, with different names.

So if h: is the XHTML namespace, you need

<xsl:template match="h:html|html">
or
<xsl:template match="*[local-name()='html']">

Is either of those really hard or surprising, given that you are
matching against two different elements?

David

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