Hi!

I'm using xslt 1.0 (xalan) on a servlet that transforms xml
to html. The xsl file uses document() function to access a
xml file on the local file system (both files are under
the webapp directory in question).

When running the transformation from the command line, everything
works just fine. Not so when running it from the servlet.

I have the following in the xsl file:

    <xsl:param name="foo">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="document('../dir1/file.xml')" mode="bar"/>
    </xsl:param>

    <xsl:template match="root_node" mode="bar">
        <xsl:text>Hello World!</xsl:text>
        <xsl:for-each select="//*">
            <xsl:if test="@id = $req_id">
                ....
            </xsl:if>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:template>

The funny thing (at least to a newbie like me) is that the "Hello World!"
gets printed, but the rest of the "root_node" template does nothing. Isn't
the fact that the template gets called a sign that the root node of the file
file.xml was found (which is root_node)? So the document function did find
the correct file, right?

I have set systemID's in Java to point to the directories containing the xml and xsl
files (in the form of 'file:///dir/dir...').

Thanks

Perhaps the value of $req_id isn't being passed in correctly?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

I did some testing, and what I can tell the parameter is correct. I used <xsl:value-of select="$req_id"/> inside the root_node template and the output was what it was supposed to be.

For some reason, when run from the servlet, the processing of the template stops in <xsl:for-each select="//*">... As I said, when run from the console everything works fine.

I guess the problem isn't in the xslt(?) (or in the document() call) cause it works from the console, but something in the servlet code I have missed. Perhaps something silly... I have to investigate more.

Ok,

The problem had to do with the xslt that comes bundled with Java 1.4.2_05 (com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.Tran sformerFactoryImpl). For some reason my xsl:for-each didn't agree with it. Using Xalan from the Apache XML project everyting works just fine.