XSLT, 2nd Edition

Name

namespace-uri()

Returns the namespace URI of the argument node.

Syntax

[1.0] string namespace-uri(node-set?)
[2.0] xs:anyURI namespace-uri()
[2.0] xs:anyURI namespace-uri(node()?)

Inputs

[1.0] A node-set. If the node-set is omitted, the namespace-uri() function creates a node-set that has the context node as its only member.

[2.0] A node. If the node is omitted, the namespace-uri() function is evaluated against the context item. If the input is a sequence with more than one node, the XSLT processor raises an error.

Output

[1.0] The namespace URI of the first node in the argument node-set. If the argument node-set is empty, the first node has no namespace URI, or the first node has a namespace URI that is null, an empty string is returned.

[2.0] The namespace URI of the argument node. If the argument is the empty sequence, the argument has no namespace URI or the node has a namespace URI that is null, an empty string is returned.

Be aware that the namespace-uri() function returns an empty string for all nodes other than element and attribute nodes.

Defined in

[1.0] XPath section 4.1, “Node Set Functions.”

[2.0] XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators section 14, “Functions and Operators on Nodes.”

Example

We’ll use a slightly modified version of our Shakespearean sonnet to illustrate the namespace-uri() function:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- sonnet-namespace.xml -->
<sonnet type='Shakespearean'
  xmlns="http://www.oreilly.com/xslt">
  <author xmlns="http://www.authors.com/"> <last-name>Shakespeare</last-name> ...