Subject: [xsl] XSLT2 processing question From: "Georg Hohmann" <georg.hohmann@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:39:17 +0200 |
till today i thought that i was no beginner with xslt anymore but now i'm not sure about. I thought i knew how xsl processes data but that was wrong (i guess). I read many basic informations about the processing structure but i didn't get right idea what in my thinking is wrong. So i bend my knees and ask the experts ;-)
What i got is something like this as the source: --------------------------------------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <customers> <info>This is data about customers</info> <person> <name> <first>John</first> <last>Doe</last> </name> <idnr>123</idnr> </person> <person> <name> <first>Tom</first> <last>Test</last> </name> <idnr>456</idnr> </person> <person> <name> <first>Edna</first> <last>Example</last> </name> <idnr>789</idnr> </person> </customers> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
My Stylesheet looks like this: --------------------------------------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output name="out" method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:result-document format="out" href="result.xml"> <adress> <xsl:apply-templates/> </adress> </xsl:result-document> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="//name"> <firstname> <xsl:value-of select="first"/> </firstname> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
What i *want* to have is this: --------------------------------------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <adress> <firstname>John<firstname> <firstname>Tom<firstname> <firstname>Edna<firstname> </adress> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
But the result i get from my stylesheet is this: --------------------------------------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <adress> This is data about customers
<firstname>John</firstname> 123
<firstname>Tom</firstname> 456
<firstname>Edna</firstname> 789
</adress> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
What am I doing wrong? I thought the stylesheet would do the following: Go to the root element (match="/"), generate my root ("adress") and add the results of the following template (apply-templates). The next template searches for the node "name" everyware in the source ("//name"), and for each nodes it finds it appends a node called "firstname" with the value of "first".
Well, obviously this is not (exactly) what it does. Why are the values of "info" and "idnr" also in the output? I know this is an issue about how xslt processes data and it's a real beginner scenario, so i'm sorry to waste your time with it. I'm not (only) interested in the right solution to get the result i want but also for an explanation of where my thinking is wrong.
Regards, G. Hohmann
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