Re: [xsl] Matching attributes with namespace

["Spencer Tickner" <spencertickner@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the responses. It's just a day before vacation and I was
hoping to avoid wading through someone else's Perl code. But I can see
that this is probably unavoidable. Thanks for the responses.

Spencer

On 8/3/06, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Spencer,
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by the attributes on the act element
> getting jumbled. (Maybe I've been looking at the screen too long. :-)
> The only difference I see between your input and output is that the
> order of the attributes is different. While from the point of view of
> the instance-considered-as-text-file this reordering may constitute a
> jumbling, from the point of view of the
> instance-considered-as-XML-document, it doesn't, as attribute
> ordering is not considered to be semantically significant in XML, and
> no XML processor or parser is bound to respect it.
>
> If this is the source of your troubles, you basically have three options:
>
> 1. Try different XSLT engines until you find one that happens to
> respect your attribute ordering, and then use that one. (Meanwhile
> document the requirement, as it's over and above simple XML and XSLT.)
>
> 2. Try providing a template in your stylesheet that explicitly forces
> the processing order of these attributes (oops: except one is a
> namespace declaration, ouch!), and see if that helps. It might or
> might not. Again, be aware that since your requirement for a
> particular attribute ordering is over and above XML semantics, if
> this works it's just a case of your being lucky.
>
> 3. Fix the other process(es) that expect a particular attribute
> ordering so they're actually XML-compliant.
>
> I'd personally go for option 3, as both "correct" and most likely to
> make the headache go away permanently.
>
> I hope that helps,
> Wendell
>
>
> At 02:08 PM 8/3/2006, you wrote:
> >Hi List,
> >
> >Thanks in advance for the help. I have a very simple transformation
> >that I can't seem to get right. The following is a shortened example.
> >
> >XML
> >
> ><?xml version="1.0"?>
> ><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../../media/xslt_2.xsl"?>
> ><act xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
> >xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../media/ActSchema.xsd"
> >index="96001_01">
> >  <title>This is the <insert>title</insert></title>
> ></act>
> >
> >
> >XSL
> >
> ><?xml version='1.0'?>
> ><xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> >xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> >
> ><xsl:template match="/">
> >         <xsl:apply-templates/>
> ></xsl:template>
> >
> >  <xsl:template match="node()">
> >       <xsl:copy>
> >            <xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
> >            <xsl:apply-templates select="node()" />
> >       </xsl:copy>
> >  </xsl:template>
> >
> >
> ><xsl:template match="insert"><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:template>
> >
> ></xsl:stylesheet>
> >
> >
> >So basically just stripping out the insert element. Everything else
> >should stay the same. However my attributes on <act> get jumbled to:
> >
> >OUTPUT
> >
> ><?xml version='1.0' ?>
> ><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../../media/xslt_2.xsl"?>
> ><act index="96001_01"
> >xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../media/ActSchema.xsd"
> >xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";>
> >  <title>This is the title</title>
> ></act>
> >
> >and for whatever reason this is messing up other things in our
> >work-flow. Anyone have any ideas on how to make the <act> attributes
> >come out exactly as they are in the source document?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Spencer