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Given that all the nodes in my XML document have the "dsml" namespace,
what is the XSL syntax to access the elements or apply templates?
Below is a snippet:

<dsml:batchResponse xmlns:dsml="urnasis:names:tcSML:2:0:core"
xmlns="urnasis:names:tcSML:2:0:core" xmlnssd="http://www.w3.org/
2001/XMLSchema" xmlnssi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<dsml:searchResponse>
<dsml:searchResultEntry>
<dsml:attr name="mail">
<dsml:value></dsml:value>
</dsml:attr>
</dsml:searchResultEntry>
</dsml:batchResponse>

johkar wrote:
> Given that all the nodes in my XML document have the "dsml" namespace,
> what is the XSL syntax to access the elements or apply templates?
> Below is a snippet:
>
> <dsml:batchResponse xmlns:dsml="urnasis:names:tcSML:2:0:core"
> xmlns="urnasis:names:tcSML:2:0:core" xmlnssd="http://www.w3.org/
> 2001/XMLSchema" xmlnssi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
> <dsml:searchResponse>
> <dsml:searchResultEntry>
> <dsml:attr name="mail">
> <dsml:value></dsml:value>
> </dsml:attr>
> </dsml:searchResultEntry>
> </dsml:batchResponse>

In the XSLT stylesheet you need to bind a prefix to the namespace URI
and use that prefix in XPath expressions and match patterns. Often the
same prefix as in the XML input is used but that is not necessary.
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlnssl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0"
xmlns:dsml="urnasis:names:tcSML:2:0:core">

<xsl:template match="dsml:batchResponse">
...
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

johkar wrote:
> Given that all the nodes in my XML document have the "dsml" namespace,
> what is the XSL syntax to access the elements or apply templates?

Define a prefix in your stylesheet which maps to that namespace, and use
that prefix in your XPaths, like so:

<xsl:stylesheet ... xmlns:dsml="urnasis:names:tcSML:2:0:core" ...>
...
<xsl:template match="dsml:batchResponse">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//dsml:value"/>
</xsl:template>
...

<xsl:stylesheet>

and so on.

Standard pointer to the many tutorials/articles on
http://www.ibm.com/xml, since this is a question that any decent XSLT
tutorial should have answered.

--
Joe Kesselman / Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden

On Mar 13, 10:38*am, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> johkar wrote:
> > Given that all the nodes in my XML document have the "dsml" namespace,
> > what is the XSL syntax to access the elements or apply templates?
> > Below is a snippet:
>
> > <dsml:batchResponse xmlns:dsml="urnasis:names:tcSML:2:0:core"
> > xmlns="urnasis:names:tcSML:2:0:core" xmlnssd="http://www.w3.org/
> > 2001/XMLSchema" xmlnssi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
> > * *<dsml:searchResponse>
> > <dsml:searchResultEntry>
> > * * *<dsml:attr name="mail">
> > * * * * *<dsml:value>last.fi...@domain.com</dsml:value>
> > * * *</dsml:attr>
> > </dsml:searchResultEntry>
> > </dsml:batchResponse>
>
> In the XSLT stylesheet you need to bind a prefix to the namespace URI
> and use that prefix in XPath expressions and match patterns. Often the
> same prefix as in the XML input is used but that is not necessary.
> * *<xsl:stylesheet
> * * *xmlnssl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> * * *version="1.0"
> * * *xmlns:dsml="urnasis:names:tcSML:2:0:core">
>
> * * *<xsl:template match="dsml:batchResponse">
> * * * * ...
> * * *</xsl:template>
>
> * *</xsl:stylesheet>

Thanks very much...and quick too.