Problem with namesapce Prefix in XSLT transform

Question

Hi all,
I have the following XML as source:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="C:\Documents and Settings\i034461\Desktop\TestConv.xslt"?>
<ns0:Proxy_Mail_MT xmlns:ns0="http://abhi.com">
     <Sender>A</Sender>
     <Receiver>B</Receiver>
     <Content>test</Content>
     <Content>test1</Content>
</ns0:Proxy_Mail_MT>
target:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ns1:Mail xmlns:ns1="http://sap.com/xi/XI/Mail/30">
   <From>A</From>
   <To>B</To>
   <Content>*Hi    B       A    test       Thanks    A</Content>
</ns1:Mail>
I use a XSL transform to achieve the same.  The XSL file is
as
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?altova_samplexml C:\Documents and Settings\i034461\Desktop\test.xml?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
     <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
     <xsl:template match="/">
          <ns1:Mail xmlns:ns1 = "http://sap.com/xi/XI/Mail/30">
               <From>
                    <xsl:value-of select="concat('hi' , '   ' , Proxy_Mail_MT/Sender)"/>
               </From>
               <To>
                    <xsl:value-of select="concat('Thanks' ,  '    ' , Proxy_Mail_MT/Receiver)"/>
               </To>
               <content>
               <xsl:for-each select="Proxy_Mail_MT/Content">
                <xsl:variable name="ConCnt" select="." />
                <xsl:value-of select="concat($ConCnt , '   ' )"/>                    
               </xsl:for-each>
               </content>
          </ns1:Mail>
     </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I face the Following issue:
My Source XML Root Document has a namespace Prefix
ns0:Proxy_Mail_MT
I would like to have my template match as  the root set as (/).
Unfortunately, the XPATH expression for the elements (  say Proxy_Mail_MT/Receiver ) fails beacuse of the NAMESPACE Prefix   "ns0".
Can anyone suggest me how this namespace prefix can be used in the XPATH expression  or is there any other possible solution.
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards
Abhishek

Answer 1

Hi,
you need to add the namespace to your header. It will look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:ns0="http://abhi.com" exclude-result-prefixes="ns0">
     <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
     <xsl:template match="/">
          <ns1:Mail xmlns:ns1="http://sap.com/xi/XI/Mail/30">
               <From>
                    <xsl:value-of select="concat('hi' , ' ' , /ns0:Proxy_Mail_MT/Sender)"/>
Hope it helps
Kind regards
Mikkel