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RE: How namespaces are unique???
- From: "Macaulay,Malcolm (US)" <Malcolm dot Macaulay2 at cnare dot com>
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- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 07:46:24 -0500
- Subject: RE: [xsl] How namespaces are unique???
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Dennis,
I'm not a namespaces expert but I'll give you my understanding and hopefully someone will correct me if I have it wrong..
There is no problem with the situations you have.
xmlns:calp="http://url1.com/meta/calp"
and
xmlns:calp-"http://url2.com/bit/calbit"
are unique namespaces. The "calp" prefix is simply the local abbreviation used by the authors in their documents. It is just a shorthand for the url. The only problem you have is that your XSLT is acting on the two documents where the authors have used the same prefix. No problem - just assign new (unique) prefixes for use in your XSLT. e,g:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:MyCalpPrefix="http://url1.com/meta/calp" xmlns:MyCalbitPrefix="http://url2.com/bit/calbit" ...../>
and the write XPaths to get the elements you want, e.g:
<xsl:value-of select='../MyCalpPrefix:Element'/> would get from calp:Element of the 'Calp' doc
<xsl:value-of select='../MyCalbitPrefix:Element'/> would get from calp:Element of the 'Calbit' doc
Hope that helps
cheers
Malcolm
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Subject: [xsl] How namespaces are unique???
Hello All,
I had a problem recently, that I was using XML from
different sources and both the sources had namespace
of same name, the name used was "calp"
both had namespace definition like this:
xmlns:calp="http://url1.com/meta/calp"
xmlns:calp-"http://url2.com/bit/calbit"
Can anyone explain me how namespace is resolving the
conflict, when the these prefix names are same???
I'll be thankful if someone can help me in this.
Regards
Dennis
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