Error "Failed to compile stylesheet"

amhicraig · December 7th, 2007, 07:04 PM

I have an xsl that throws an error when doing

Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(myStreamSource);

Error is

Failed to compile stylesheet. 1 error detected.

I am using saxon 9 to parse and have included saxon9.jar to my classpath.

Style sheet is pasted below.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
    <xsl:output indent="yes"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <rows>

    <head>
    <xsl:for-each select="table/tableMetaData/columns/dataColumn">

        <column>

            <xsl:attribute name="width">
            <xsl:value-of select="width"/>
            </xsl:attribute>

            <xsl:attribute name="type">edn</xsl:attribute>

            <xsl:attribute name="align">
            <xsl:value-of select="alignment"/>
            </xsl:attribute>

            <xsl:attribute name="color">white</xsl:attribute>

            <xsl:attribute name="sort">str</xsl:attribute>

        <xsl:value-of select="name"/>
        </column>

    </xsl:for-each>
    </head>

            <xsl:for-each-group select="table/tData/row" group-by="sData[1]/sValue">
                <row>
                    <cell><xsl:value-of select="sData[1]/sValue"/></cell>
                    <xsl:for-each select="current-group()">
                        <row>
                            <xsl:call-template name="rowCtr"/>
                            <cell><xsl:value-of select="sData[2]/sValue"/></cell>
                            <xsl:apply-templates select="*[position() > 1]"></xsl:apply-templates>
                        </row>
                    </xsl:for-each>
                </row>
            </xsl:for-each-group>
        </rows>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="table/tData/row/doubleDatum/values/value | table/tabelData/row/sData/sValue">
        <cell><xsl:value-of select="."/></cell>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template name="rowCtr" match="table">
        <xsl:attribute name="id">
            <xsl:number format="1" from="tData" count="row"/>
        </xsl:attribute>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

mhkay · December 7th, 2007, 07:20 PM

The first thing you need to do is to work out why you aren't seeing the error that Saxon is saying it has reported. Unless you did something special to redirect it, it will have been written to the standard error output. By default that goes to the console, but if you're in some kind of environment like an application server it probably goes to a log file somewhere. You can nominate your own ErrorListener to be notified of the errors, and then you can decide where to display them. There's not really much point trying to debug a stylesheet until you've got a development environment where you can see the error messages.

If I copy this to a file and run it from the command line the stylesheet compiles OK; so the problem is probably local to your environment. But there's no point speculating until you can find where that error message has been written.

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