How to avoid namespaces from xml with the help of xslt

Question

I have this xml
<BPEL_MaximoOrg1ProcessResponse xmlns="http://MaximoProcess.bpel"> <result>  <MXORGANIZATIONSet>   <ORGANIZATION>    <COMPANYSETID>APEK</COMPANYSETID>    <DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION></DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION>    <ENTERBY>313096</ENTERBY>    <ENTERDATE>2013-01-24T17:44:31+05:30</ENTERDATE>    <ITEMSETID>AJ</ITEMSETID>    <ORGANIZATIONID>7</ORGANIZATIONID>    <ORGID>AJORG</ORGID>   </ORGANIZATION>  </MXORGANIZATIONSet> </result></BPEL_MaximoOrg1ProcessResponse>

I want <COMPANYSETID>APEK<COMPANYSETID>  from this xml in out.xml,but i cant overcome the namespace that is why the desired result is not coming.

please help me to get out of this..

Thanks

Answer 1

One method could be this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" exclude-result-prefixes="source" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:source="http://MaximoProcess.bpel">
  <xsl:template match="source:BPEL_MaximoOrg1ProcessResponse">
    <Destination>
      <COMPANYSETID>
        <xsl:value-of select="source:result/source:MXORGANIZATIONSet/source:ORGANIZATION/source:COMPANYSETID" />
      </COMPANYSETID>
    </Destination>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

If you simply want XPath to be able to ignore namespaces you can you this syntax:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <Destination>
      <COMPANYSETID>
        <xsl:value-of select="//*[local-name() = 'COMPANYSETID']" />
      </COMPANYSETID>
    </Destination>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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