Re: [xml-dev] How to get XPath in a XSLT shylesheet

[David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>]

> But Michael is of course correct that the code is not 
> robust (for the maybe 0.0001% of documents that have multiple prefixes
> for the same namespace in sibling elements.)

It's also not robust, as I mentioned, for any document using a default
namespace (eg nearly all xhtml)

> But I am interested in how many other vocabularies are regularly used with more
> than one typical prefix.

I've seen mathml used with no prefix, or prefixes m, mml, mathml.

It's usually authored with no prefix, but mathml generated by xslt often
is prefixed since you need to declare a prefix for the mathml in the
stylesheet if you are querying mathml as well as generating it, and
also having a prefix helps (some forms of) integration into IE browser.


David