Re: [xsl] Stumped on why a field isn't showing up

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deirdre@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 13, 2004, at 5:19 AM, M. David Peterson wrote:

Thanks to both you and  J.Pietschmann for providing answers. In the 
sake of efficiency, I'm replying to only one.

> The first thing I notice in your stylesheet is the fact that you are
> selecting "novel/chapter" for your first apply-templates.  According to
> your sample XML there is no novel/chapter.  There is a text node
> "&ch01;" that looks like it could at one point been a representation of
> something but I'm just making a guess.

Actually, there is a novel/chapter -- it's in the included file 
referenced by &ch01;

> It is using "chapter" as the context of continuing the recursion 
> process
> of apply-templates.  Since "author" and "address" are child elements of
> "novel" and not "chapter" the apply-templates process being invoked
> doesn’t find any child elements following the chapter path and stop's
> the processing for that element.

Ah!

Initially, the address and author were on a title page, where there was 
no chapter scope. So that's what I wasn't getting. Since this is 
literally day three with XSL (swapping in and out with everything else 
I'm working on), I'm still struggling to understand everything.

> There are two ways to fix this:
>
> 1) Add a root ("/") reference to the beginning of your apply-templates
> for the "author" and "address". So, turn this:

That's the easy fix, which I'll use for now. Anything else seems to 
require more restructuring than I can do now. For one thing, I'm using 
something that's really not intended for this kind of a document at 
all, but rather for the body of a novel.

> The one other thing I should point out is the fact that you have an
> extra </xsl:apply-templates> in your second template.

Huh. I didn't see any with a closing tag, just a bad indent.

> I hope this helps you get a little closer to where you want to be!  And
> don’t hesitate to ask further questions if the need arises.

Thanks very much for both of your help.

Obviously, I have a lot more to learn, but I did need to get the silly 
synopsis into the mail. :)

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_Deirdre                                             http://deirdre.net
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