Re: [xsl] Simple template matching problem

[Steve <subsume@xxxxxxxxx>]

You're absolutely right. It seems that my processing scripts are, in
some cases, transforming XSL with no XML. Thanks for the reply.

-S

On 5/7/07, Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Steve wrote:
> > I want a template to match the root node of either default.xml or
> > record.xml
> >
> > Right now it only succesfully matches record.xml
> >
> > default.xml
> >
> > <root>
> >   <stuff />
> > </root>
> >
> > record.xml
> >
> > <Records>
> >   <Record />
> > </Records>
> >
> > Current xsl:
> >
> > <xsl:template match="root | Records">
> >  hey, hey. We are, in fact, the monkeys.
> > </xsl:template>
>
> I suppose you are missing something like:
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="document('record.xml')/*" />
>
> the match itself in your code is correct for either. Can you send
> something more of your code? In addition, look through your stylesheet
> for something like match="/Records" or something like
> match="Records[@id]" which both may have a higher precedence which can
> be a reason for not matching 'Records' in the first place.
>
> Another way to try your code is (carefully) replacing your
> apply-templates with copy-of to see if you really select something in
> apply-templates, or that you have some error in the namespace prefix,
> the absence of one, or anything else that can be a cause of
> non-selection (missing CamelCase?).
>
> Cheers,
> -- Abel