Indeed, "/book" should not match if your document is in the DocBook 5
namespace. Perhaps a short sample document and short customization layer
would provide us with more information to sort this out.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geraint North" <>
To: "Thomas Schraitle" <>
Cc: "Bob Stayton" <>; <>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Something like an attribute-set, but different
> Hi Tom,
>
> On 14 Dec 2007, at 12:56, Thomas Schraitle wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> I'm having difficulty getting the desired effect, though (either with
>>> params or attribute sets), which I think is due to my
>>> misunderstanding of Xpath query syntax. I've constructed a very
>>> small case that illustrates my misunderstanding.
>>>
>>> Within an attribute-set, the following evaluates as true
>>>
>>> <xsl:when test="/book">
>>>
>>> But the following does not:
>>>
>>> <xsl:when test="/book/info[1]">
>>> nor does
>>> <xsl:when test="/book/info">
>>
>> The info element looks like you are using DocBook 5, right?
>> In this case the above test is expected to fail, because the
>> element belongs to no namespace. You need the DocBook5 namespace
>> for each element. Insert the following line in <xsl:stylesheet>:
>>
>> xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
>>
>> You have to change the XPath expression a bit to take care of the
>> DocBook5 namespace:
>>
>> <xsl:when test="/d:book/d:info[1]">
>
>
> Thanks for taking the time to answer, but I'm afraid that I'd tried
> adding namespaces and that didn't work. Once I've added the correct
> namespace declaration, the following test won't match:
>
> <xsl:when test="/d:book">
>
> Let alone anything more complicated. Making the docbook namespace the
> default namespace doesn't help either.
>
> I'm a bit confused that "/book" _does_ match - if it were a namespace
> issue, then I wouldn't expect that to be matching either?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Geraint North
> Principal Engineer
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