Hi,

I posted earlier about an xsl document help with a similar xml doc and got perfect help. However, I don't know what I am doing wrong with this one...

I'm been having trouble with this xsl for the folllowing xml document. It is well formed, however, when you run it, none of the values for UIC, Name or Type appear in the results, just their blank elements. The reason I need this xsl transform is bc the xml is received from a webservice and it skips blank elements (meaning first row can have 3 elements, but if row two has an element that does not have data, it write 2 elements for that row).

At any rate, I need the actual data along with the elements to show up. If anyone can help me out with this I would GREATLY appreciate it.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:vb="urn:ShipSchedules">
<xsl:template match="ArrayOfUnitType">

<UnitType>
    <UIC><xsl:value-of select="vb:UIC"/></UIC>
    <Name><xsl:value-of select="vb:Name"/></Name>
    <Type><xsl:value-of select="vb:Type"/></Type>

</UnitType>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ArrayOfUnitType xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlsns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="UnitType.xsl"?>
<UnitType>
    <UIC xmlns="urn:ShipSchedules">C2000</UIC>
    <Name xmlns="urn:ShipSchedules">N33</Name>
    <Type xmlns="urn:ShipSchedules">type1</Type>
</UnitType>
<UnitType>
    <UIC xmlns="urn:ShipSchedules">C2001</UIC>
    <Type xmlns="urn:ShipSchedules">type2</Type>
</UnitType>

</ArrayOfUnitType>

ArrayOfUnitType does not have a UIC child. You need

<xsl:value-of select="UnitType/vb:UIC"/>

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

Note (advertisement): if you were using schema-aware stylesheets, this error would have been detected by the compiler. See http://www.stylusstudio.com/schema_aware.html

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

Mhkay,

Thanks again for your quick response! I added your XPath addition, but now my problem is that it 1) The new xml results does not print out the ArrayOfUnitType root node and 2) only prints out the first instance of UnitType and it's children, ignoring every other instance of UnitType. My XPath is rusty...can you use a for each for this?

Here is my current xsl code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:vb="urn:ShipSchedules">
<xsl:template match="ArrayOfUnitType">

<UnitType>
    <UIC><xsl:value-of select="UnitType/vb:UIC"/></UIC>
    <Name><xsl:value-of select="UnitType/vb:Name"/></Name>
    <Type><xsl:value-of select="UnitType/vb:Type"/></Type>

</UnitType>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
-------------------------

And, results:

<UnitType>
    <UIC xmlns="urn:ShipSchedules">C2000</UIC>
    <Name xmlns="urn:ShipSchedules">N33</Name>
    <Type xmlns="urn:ShipSchedules">type1</Type>
</UnitType>
------------------

When I want:

<ArrayOfUnitType xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlsns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<UnitType>
    <UIC xmlns="urn:ShipSchedules">C2000</UIC>
    <Name xmlns="urn:ShipSchedules">N33</Name>
    <Type xmlns="urn:ShipSchedules">type1</Type>
</UnitType>
<UnitType>
    <UIC xmlns="urn:ShipSchedules">C2001</UIC>
    <Name xmlns="urn:ShipSchedules"></Name>
    <Type xmlns="urn:ShipSchedules">type2</Type>

</UnitType>

</ArrayOfUnitType>


Thanks again for your help! :) (btw, I do have Stylus Studio, just not on this work computer. ;) )

Nevermind! I fixed it like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:vb="urn:ShipSchedules">
<xsl:template match="ArrayOfUnitType">
<ArrayOfUnitType>
<xsl:for-each select="UnitType">
  <UnitType>
    <UIC><xsl:value-of select="vb:UIC"/></UIC>
    <Name><xsl:value-of select="vb:Name"/></Name>
    <Type><xsl:value-of select="vb:Type"/></Type>

  </UnitType>
</xsl:for-each>
</ArrayOfUnitType>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I wasn't trying to give you a complete stylesheet, only to solve the specific problem you asked for help with. Obviously your stylesheet isn't going to output an <ArrayOfUnitType> element unless you ask it to.

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