I'm getting quite frustrated due to what appears to be a major omission in XML/XSLT functionality in Xalan.
I want to take a news feed in RDF - meaning someone else has formatted the XML - and convert it to HTML. The offending syntax is as follows:
Unless I misunderstand, the "title" element inherits its namespace, so the canonical equivalent should be <rdf:title>XYZZY</rdf:title>.
However there doesn't appear to be any way to select this element in Xalan. Neither the
pattern "title" NOR "rdf:title" will match, though a wildcard match will retrieve the element - along with a lot of unwanted baggage.
If I change the title element to its canonical equivalent, I can get a match on "rdf:title". However, since I am not generating this XML, that's not a viable solution. I could, of course, convert it, except that this would require coding some XSL to repair the defect and that would fail for the same reason.
Any suggestions?