I’m new to XSL and have a very strange problem.

Here is some code that works:

<jaal:city name="Gold Coast" country="Australia">
    <jaal:banner src="./myimage.jpg" alt="Banner Image"/>
    <jaal:bannertab1>
            <p>Text for bannertab1.</p>
    </jaal:bannertab1>
    <jaal:bannertab2>
            <p> Text for bannertab2.</p>
    </jaal:bannertab2>
  </jaal:city>







<xsl:template match="jaal:city">
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@name" />
            <xsl:apply-templates select="jaal:banner" />
            <div style="float: left; width: 300px; background-color: #1c98bc; margin-top: 2px;">
            <div style="margin-top: 8px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;"><xsl:apply-templates select="jaal:bannertab1" /></div>
</div>
<div style="float: right; width: 312px; background-color: #64af46; margin-top: 2px;"><img src="./images/local_tip.gif" alt="Locals Tip" align="left" />
<div style="margin-top: 8px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;"><xsl:apply-templates select="jaal:bannertab2" /></div>
            <div style="clear: both"></div>
</xsl:template>

I am adding to someone else’s code who can’t be contacted… I added the bannertab1 and bannertab2 bits.

There is more code which has the following and works:

<jaal:city name="Gold Coast" country="Australia">
            <jaal:banner src="./images/citybanners/1/main.jpg" alt="Welcome to Gold Coast" />
            <jaal:mytxt>write stuff</jaal:mytxt>
            <jaal:citybanners>
                        <jaal:one src="./images/citybanners/1/one.png" alt="Local Message Board" href="/xml/messageboard.xml" />
                        <jaal:two src="./images/citybanners/1/two.png" alt="Hot Specials" href="./" />
                        <jaal:three src="./images/citybanners/1/three.png" alt="Want To Work?" href="./" />
                        <jaal:four src="./images/citybanners/1/four.png" alt="Local Celebs Tell All" href="/xml/celebrityprofile.xml" />
                        <jaal:five src="./images/citybanners/1/five.png" alt="Kids Talk" href="./" />
            </jaal:citybanners>
</jaal:city>


<xsl:template match="jaal:city">
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@name" />
            <xsl:apply-templates select="jaal:banner" />
            <div style="margin-top: 5px;">
                        <div style="float: left; margin-left: 4px;">
                                    <img src="./images/localnews/heading.gif" /><br />
                        </div>
                        <div style="float: left; margin-left: 5px;">
                                    <img src="./images/community/heading.gif" /><br />
                                    <xsl:apply-templates select="jaal:mytxt" />
                        </div>
                        <div style="float: right; margin-right: 4px;">
                                    <img src="./images/services/heading.gif" /><br />
                        </div>
            </div>
</xsl:template>






<xsl:template match="jaal:citybanners">
            <div style="margin: 8px 5px 8px 5px">
                        <div>
                                    <a href="{jaal:one/@href}"><img src="{jaal:one/@src}" alt="{jaal:one/@alt}" /></a>
                                    <a href="{jaal:two/@href}"><img src="{jaal:two/@src}" alt="{jaal:two/@alt}" /></a>
                        </div>
                        <div>
                                    <a href="{jaal:three/@href}"><img src="{jaal:three/@src}" alt="{jaal:three/@alt}" /></a>
                                    <a href="{jaal:four/@href}"><img src="{jaal:four/@src}" alt="{jaal:four/@alt}" /></a>
                                    <a href="{jaal:five/@href}"><img src="{jaal:five/@src}" alt="{jaal:five/@alt}" /></a>
                        </div>
            </div>
</xsl:template>


Now with this code, only the jaal:banner is showing on the page. Also if I add another <xsl:apply-templates select=”jaal:banner” /> it appears, however if I change the name from jaal:banner to anything else (in both sets of code), it stops displaying!

I have no idea why and any help would be greatly appreciated.

You have no template which matches either bannertab1 or bannertab2?

<xsl:template match="jaal:bannertab1">

If you want to use the same template for each you could do this:

<xsl:template match="jaal:bannertab1 | jaal:bannertab2">

or use <xsl:call-template> and pass in the banner as a parameter.

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/