namespace problems in xslt

stekker · June 16th, 2006, 03:21 AM

I have now got almost all of my xslt stylesheet working by changing the namespace, but one of the templates is not working and I dont realy understand what I am doing wrong. A simplified version:

XML is
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<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/>
    <section>
    <title>section title</title>
    <simplesect>
        <para>section paragraph</para>
        <example>
    <title>example title</title>
    <para>example para</para>
        </example>
    </simplesect>

    </section>

</article>
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XSLT is:
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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 />

    </body>
</html>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="ns:simplesect">

<xsl:apply-templates select="ns:para"/>

<blockquote><h4><xsl:apply-templates select="ns:example/title/text()"/></h4>

<xsl:apply-templates select="ns:example/para/text()"/></blockquote>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="ns:para">
<p><xsl:apply-templates select="text()"/></p>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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This is a simplified version of my acutal problem: I have to access the "example" element in this way via the "simplesect" element otherwise the rest of my stylesheet does not work in the more complex version.

What Am I doing wrong?

mhkay · June 16th, 2006, 03:32 AM

This: ns:example/title/text()

should be: ns:example/ns:title/text()

Similarly in the next line: ns:example/ns:para/text()

Though I'm not sure why you have a template matching ns:para elements and then bypass the element when doing apply-templates, going straight to the text nodes instead.

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

stekker · June 16th, 2006, 09:59 AM

Thanks, thats working now.

Quote:

quote:Though I'm not sure why you have a template matching ns:para elements and then bypass the element when doing apply-templates, going straight to the text nodes instead.

In the full working version, the <example> element only gets processed if its atribute has a certain value. And the template that processes the text node of the <para> element directly makes sure that the contents of all <para> elements, not just those in <example> are between <p> tags.