>I hope this is a simple problem that I'm not noticing, >but it seems that Xalan (2_2_D14 and 13) doesn't >match anything except "/" if an xmlns is declared in >the instance document.
This is a FAQ (and one of the most notorious quirks of XPath). See http://www.dpawson.co.uk and follow links through the XSLT FAQ. .................David Marston
