RE: [xsl] Simple XML -> XML transform problem, possibly namespace related

[Pieter Reint Siegers Kort <pieter.siegers@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanx, Ken, you opened my eyes, now it works like a charm!! :-)

I had it worked out also if I did change the default namespace in the XML
source, but didn't know that I could add a prefix in my XSL.

One Q still: I wonder why the source XML doesn't use a prefix - should it?

PD: my XSL now looks like this:

<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:j="http://ns.real.com/tools/job.2.0";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
version="1.0">

	<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="Windows-1252" />

	<xsl:param name="strSourceFileNamePath" />
	<xsl:param name="strDestinationFileNamePath" />

	<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
		<xsl:copy>
			<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
		</xsl:copy>
	</xsl:template>

	<xsl:template match="/j:job/j:inputs/j:input/j:filename" >
		<filename type="string"><xsl:value-of
select="$strSourceFileNamePath" /></filename>
	</xsl:template>

	<xsl:template
match="/j:job/j:parOutputs/j:output/j:destinations/j:destination/j:filename"
>
		<filename type="string"><xsl:value-of
select="$strDestinationFileNamePath" /></filename>
	</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Cheers,
<prs/>

-----Original Message-----
From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 8:04 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] Simple XML -> XML transform problem, possibly namespace
related

At 2004-05-15 19:03 -0500, Pieter Reint Siegers Kort wrote:
>this one really has stumped me. I am trying to to do a simple XML to 
>XML transformation in which I'm only inserting two paths, but they do 
>not appear.

This is a FAQ.

>Unfortunately, I absolutely cannot change the input XML since this is a 
>format for a so-called job file that the Helix Producer ActiveX control 
>expects.

And it is using a namespace for its vocabulary.

>I have the following simple XSL:
>...
>         <xsl:template match="/job/inputs/input/filename" >

And you are not using namespace-qualified names in your match patterns.

>The unchangable XML is:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><job xmlns="http://ns.real.com/tools/job.2.0";

Which means the elements you are checking for start at:

    {http://ns.real.com/tools/job.2.0}job

So you will have to ensure all of your names are qualified:

   ...
   xmlns:j="http://ns.real.com/tools/job.2.0";
   ...
   <xsl:template match="/j:job/j:inputs/j:input/j:filename" >

XPath 1.0 never uses the default namespace.

I hope this helps.

..................... Ken

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