Hi all,

Am trying to do a simple xml extraction using xslt.

The goal is to extract a simplified format of xml from a complex xml structure.

for e.g.

the sample XML is given below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>



<eu>
 <member name='arbitrary'>
  <state>Austria</state>
  <state founding="yes">Belgium</state>
  <state>United Kingdom</state>
 </member>
 </eu>

the output required is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <state>Austria</state>
    <state founding="yes">Belgium</state>
    <state>United Kingdom
</state>

The xslt used is

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml"/>

 <xsl:template match="eu">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="member"/>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="member">
   <xsl:apply-templates select="state"/>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="state">
  <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
 </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

When i use this particular xslt i get the correct value,

however the input xml has an attribute for the root node.

so the actual xml is

<eu version="2001" xmlns="http://europa.eu/ebiz" xmlns:ebiz="http://europa.eu/ebiz" xsi:schemaLocation="http://europa.eu/ebiz" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
 <member name='arbitrary'>
  <state>Austria</state>
  <state founding="yes">Belgium</state>
  <state>United Kingdom</state>
 </member>
 </eu>

the xslt when applied provides the following output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

  Austria
  Belgium
  United Kingdom


This is not what I wanted, so am i missing something basic here ?
Can someone please let me know where iam getting this wrong ?

Thanks in advance

You need to bind a prefix to the default namespace URI and use that prefix in your XPath expressions and match patterns:
--
  Martin Honnen
  Microsoft MVP - XML

Hi Martin,

Thanks for your quick response. It worked :-)

There is no need for the first two templates, as these are handled automatically by the XSLT processor.

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:eb="http://europa.eu/ebiz">
<xsl:output method="xml"/>

<xsl:template match="eb:state">
 <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/