Re: [Exist-open] Re: Setting default namespace on root element

[Wolfgang M. <wol...@ex...>]

> Thanks for the tip Wolfgang!  This solves the problem.
> However, is this a solution, or a workaround?  I mean, why must the 
> xupdate have be modified because of the document's namespace.  If I were 
> aplying an xsl to my document, I wouldn't have to modify it, because of 
> the document's namespace.  So why does the xupdate have to be?

The namespace has to be declared somewhere, because the XPath engine 
needs to know that ROOT has a non-empty namespace. In xsl, you would 
probably declare the namespace at the top of the stylesheet.

However, you should be able to use the default namespace:

<xu:update xmlns="http://abc.com/somenamespace" select="/ROOT">
   Hello World!
</xu:update>

but it seems the default namespace declaration is not passed to the 
query engine. At least, it didn't work in my test. I have to check why...

Wolfgang