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Currently I'm defining a variable in my XSLT 1.x file like this:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 xmlns:ns1="http://ns.hr-xml.org" >
...
    <xsl:variable name="my_var" select="ns1:RootNode/ns1:Node[3]/ns1:Title" />

Is there a way so that I can somehow define ns1: namespace to be always used so that I could possibly write my variable like this:

<xsl:variable name="my_var" select="RootNode/Node[3]/Title" />
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    If you were able to upgrade to XSLT 2.0, you would be able to use xpath-default-namespace to do this. Commented Jul 1, 2016 at 11:21
  • Thanks @TimC I did found it out but unfortunately I don't have this opportunity to use XSLT 2.0 Commented Jul 1, 2016 at 13:08
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    Then I am not sure you can do much. You do see people doing something like *[local-name() = 'RootNode'] but this would match all namespaces, not just the required one, and isn't really a good solution anyway. Commented Jul 1, 2016 at 13:15
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    @HrvojeGolcic Why is this a problem? Commented Jul 1, 2016 at 13:16
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    This is indeed not supported in XSLT 1.x, see the answer to this post: stackoverflow.com/questions/14274166/…. Another hacky workaround would be to prepend a transformation to remove all namespaces, but I don't even think that I should suggest this. Commented Jul 1, 2016 at 15:15
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