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Accessing attribute with colons

 
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I am trying to retreive an attribute which has a colon in the name.

XML looks like

XSLT looks like

When I run the xslt I get Error in XPath, invalid prefix. Can somebody help me access this please.


Thanks Praveen.
 
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In the sample of your input XML document you left out the part where it declares the namespace whose prefix is "c:" in that document.

It isn't the case that the name of the attribute "contains a colon", from the XML point of view. It is the case that the attribute's name is in a certain namespace, and you have declared that in this document, that namespace will be described by the prefix "c:".

So if you want to search for attributes in that namespace, you have to declare the namespace. That means that in your XSLT document, you have to declare that namespace and specify that its prefix will be "c:" in the XSLT document as well.
 
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Actually I am not generating the xml here, its the output of a tool that I am using. I am pasting the file here. Please let me know if there s any way that I can get the value myName and the type of the element from this file.

(I am adding space after each colon to avoid the smileys)


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What I already said. Here's your namespace declaration:Include that declaration in your XSLT as well.

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