OK - thanks, I worked it out. If I add xmlns:ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" to the stylesheet, and add a "ns:" when referring to an element, it works. But what about this:
I have javascript in an html page which associates different stylesheets to a xml document object depending on what button is pressed.
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<html>
<head>
<title>testing</title>
<script language="JavaScript">
var processor; /* will hold reference to XSLT processor object */
var dataXML; /* will hold reference to XML document object */
var xslfile; /* variable to hold string reference to xslt file*/
var newStart = "true"; /* variable to check whether buttons must be enabled*/
/*Start() function is called in opening </body> tag*/
function Start()
{
processor = new XSLTProcessor(); /* a new XSLT processor object is declared and associated with variable "processor"*/
loadData (); /* function to create empty XML document */
xslfile = 'notes.xslt'; /* default stylesheet assigned*/
}
/* this is called by the Start() function */
function loadData ()
{
/* creates a new empty XML document object and associates it with
* the variable dataXML*/
dataXML = document.implementation.createDocument("", "", null);
/*below sets the loading of the xml file to be
* synchronous - the function waits until the document
* has finished loading before it returns the document
* and the processing continues.
*Otherwise it would be neccesary to check if the document
* has finished loading*/
dataXML.async = false;
dataXML.load("notes.xml"); /* uses the "load()" method of DOM interface to load the XML document "notes.xml" into the document object dataXML */
}
/* the WriteHTML function is called by the buttons */
function WriteHTML ( afile )
{
xslfile = afile; /* the current stylesheet is passed to the WriteHTML function*/
refresh(); /* function defined below which creates a new XML document object and uses it to switch stylesheets*/
}
/* the refresh() function is called by the
*WriteHTML() function, which in turn is called
* buttons*/
function refresh()
{
var dataXSL = document.implementation.createDocument("", "", null); /* a new XML document object is created and associated with variable "dataXSL"*/
dataXSL.async = false; /* set loading to be synchoronous */
dataXSL.load(xslfile); /* associate the current xslt file with dataXSL object*/
processor.reset(); /* reset() method of XSLT processor object removes all parameters and stylesheets from the XML object "processor"*/
processor.importStylesheet(dataXSL); /*importStylesheet() method of XSLT processor imports the stylesheet associated with dataXSL into "processor"*/
var result = processor.transformToDocument(dataXML, document); /*"result" is new document object. dataXML is transformed */
/*part of the browser document is removed and replaced with the transformed document*/
document.getElementById ("here").removeChild (document.getElementById ("here").firstChild);
document.getElementById ("here").appendChild(result.firstChild);
}
</script>
<meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1528" name=GENERATOR></head>
<body onload=Start()>
<form>
<button onclick="WriteHTML('notesa.xslt'); return false">Generate Ascending</button>
<button onclick="WriteHTML('notesd.xslt'); return false">Generate Descending</button>
</form>
<div id=here>blank</div>
</body></html>
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If the XML is something like this:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook
docbook.xsd">
<title/>
<para>a</para>
<para>b</para>
<para>c</para>
</article>
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And the stylesheets are something like this:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="//para">
<xsl:sort select="." order="descending"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="ns://para">
<h1><xsl:apply-templates select="text()"/></h1>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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What is wrong with the namespace here?
schema stops stylesheet from working?
