cant reach data in xml with namespaces

TPP · March 24th, 2006, 11:39 AM

Hi!
I have a problem retriving data from xml file.

XML:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 
<Data xmlns="http://something.com/Documents/Schemas/doc.xsd" 
xmlns:e="http://something.com/Documents/Schemas/file.xsd">
<e:Head>
      <e:name>John</e:name> 
      <e:address1>London, UK</e:address1> 
      <e:postNumber>123456</e:postNumber>  
</e:Head>
<body>
      <age>35</age> 
      <kids>3</kids> 
      <car>ford</car>  
</body>
</Data>

XSLT:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1250" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:edp="http://http://something.com/Documents/Schemas/file.xsd">
        <xsl:template match="/">    
                                        <xsl:value-of select="//Data/e:Head/e:name" />
                                        <xsl:value-of select="//Data/Body/age" />
        </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

...why do i get blank output?

Thank you for your help.

TPP · March 24th, 2006, 11:52 AM

in posted xslt there is a typing error in 3rd line:
xmlns:edp="http://http://something.com/Documents/Schemas/file.xsd">

should be:
xmlns:e="http://http://something.com/Documents/Schemas/file.xsd">

...this does not solve the problem from the first post.

Thanks again for your help.

mhkay · March 24th, 2006, 11:57 AM

//Data selects nothing because there is no element in your source document called Data. There is an element called {http://something.com/Documents/Schemas/doc.xsd}Data (using James Clark's {uri}local notation for namespaced names), and to select this element you need to use the path expression

//x:Data

where some containing element (e.g. xsl:stylesheet) defines

xmlns:x="http://something.com/Documents/Schemas/doc.xsd"

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

TPP · March 25th, 2006, 04:40 PM

thanks alot :D

btw:
XSLT Programmer's Reference... ->great book