Re: RE: [xsl] XPath to match XML from Cocoon Request Generator

[Tim Heighes <Tim.Heighes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 16:54:38 +0300
>From: Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [xsl] XPath to match XML from Cocoon Request Generator

>>Hi,

>> <page>
>>   <request xmlns="http://www.apache.org/coccon/requestgenerator/2.0";
>>            target="/cocoon/test/request" source="">
>>     <requestHeaders>
>>   	<header name="accept">image/gif, image/jpeg, ..., */*</header> 
>>   	<header name="accept-language">en-gb</header> 
>>   	<header name="accept-encoding">gzip, deflate</header> 
>>   	<header name="user-agent">Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 
>> 6.0; Windows
>> NT 5.0)</header> 
>>   	<header name="host">localhost:8080</header> 
>>   	<header name="connection">Keep-Alive</header> 
>>     </requestHeaders>
>>     <requestParameters /> 
>>     <configurationParameters /> 
>>   </request>
>>   <foo target="bar"/>
>> </page>
>> 
>> I what to access the target attribute of the request element. 
>>  I have used:

>  /page/x:request/@target

>where the prefix x is bound to namespace URI 
>http://www.apache.org/coccon/requestgenerator/2.0.
 
>[snip]

>> 1) Why is xmlns attribute causing this happening?

>See <http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#node-tests>

>  "--except that the default namespace declared with xmlns is not used:--"

>Cheers,

>Jarno - God Module: Illusion

Thanks for the response Jarno but I still have the problem - may be I have
misunderstood you - there is no x, so '/path/request/@target' should work:

XML: 
<page>
  <request xmlns="http://www.apache.org/coccon/requestgenerator/2.0";
           target="/cocoon/test/request" source="">
    ...
  </request>
</page>

XSLT:
My understanding is that <xsl:value-of select="/path/request/@target"/>
should return '/cocoon/test/request', but it does not.
Instead the only XSLT I can make work is <xsl:value-of
select="/path/*/@target"/>

When I remove the xmlns attribute from the XML:
<page>
  <request target="/cocoon/test/request" source="">
    ...
  </request>
</page>

<xsl:value-of select="/path/request/@target"/> works.

It appears that the xmlns attribute is preventing the Xpath from matching.

Tim


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