RE: [xml-dev] XSLT and default namespaces

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>]

> XSLT's handling of namespaces seems to be the bane of my life.

Namespaces were invented because someone was worried that XML was too
simple...

> Is it possible to extract the 
> value of the default namespace when the element to which it 
> is attached is in another namespace (as here)? I am using XSLT 1.0.


<xsl:value-of select="namespace::*[name()='']"/>

Michael Kay