RE: xpath into docbook namespace

[Cavicchio_Rob@emc.com]

Franklin Einspruch [mailto:franklin.einspruch@gmail.com] wrote:

> Hi - Docbook newb here. What is the XPath selector for <title> in the
> following trivial Docbook article? The regular article/title isn't
> working because of the namespace declaration, although I don't know
> why.
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; version="5.0">
> <title>I Am The Title</title>
> </article>


Don't know if this is your issue, but one thing that's sometimes a
little confusing in XSL is that the root of the document is not the root
element, but one level above it. So from an arbitrary point in your
transform, you would access the title with the path "/article/title"
rather than "article/title".


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