Select value of xml document with namespace

Question

I have the following XML snippet

<aaa>
  <bbb xmlns="http://net.some.address.com">
    <ccc>123321</ccc>
  </bbb>
</aaa>

And i want to select the value of <ccc> with XSL template, but not able to get it by using

<xsl:value-of select="/aaa/bbb/ccc"/>

Any ideas how to get the value without changing the input ?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 18 '20 at 09:32

Declare the namespace and use it.

<xsl:value-of xmlns:a="http://net.some.address.com" select="/aaa/a:bbb/a:ccc"/>

You can pick any prefix you want, it does not have to be a.
You can declare the namespace at any point higher up in the XSLT document. Usually all namespaces are declared at the <xsl:stylesheet> level, but as you can see, that's just a convention.

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