Hi all -

I think that I weak grasp of the practical requirements, but I'm unable to find a reference in the spec to clarify what's happening in the following:

I have a constructor:
return(
for $item in $file-list
let $item-less := replace($item, '^\d{1,}-', '')
(: returns "missing" supplemental files :)
where ($item-less[(not(. = ($files-titles, $excludes)))])
    or ($item-less[(. = $files-titles)])
return(
    <relatedItem>
      <title>{$item-less}</title>
      <mimeType>
        {if ($item-less = $files-titles)
          then ($content/files/file/name[. = $item-less]/following-sibling::mimetype/text())
          else (fetch:content-type(concat(file:parent(document-uri($doc)),$item)))}
      </mimeType>
      <uri>{file:parent(document-uri($doc))}</uri>
    </relatedItem>
)
)

and it works fine so long at the <relatedItem> is not namespaced. As soon as the <relatedItem> is namespaced; e.g. <relatedItem xmlns="http://bridger.net">, then I need to use the following XPath in the `then` keyword:

($content/*:files/*:file/*:name[. = $item-less]/following-sibling::*:mimetype/text())

The input documents (in the SSCCE, under sample-data/*/metadata.xml) are not in a namespace.

Would someone mind providing some context for the "why" here? I've been looking through Priscilla Walmsley's 2nd edition, and the specification, but haven't been able to find an answer. I'm almost certainly looking for the wrong thing(s).

Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.

Best,

Bridger