You can use namespaces in XSLT and XPath like <xsl:value-of select="//a:account/b:accountType" xmlns:a="http://example.com/accounts" xmlns:b="http://example.com/types"/> For this to work in Java the document builder must be namespace aware otherwise namespaces are stripped when parsing the document and your transformation will fail for obvious reasons. DocumentBuilderFactory f = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); f.setNamespaceAware(true); At least in JDK 6 the default seems to be false. ...
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