Re: [xsl] Recognizing non-XML Markup Structure

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

J. S. Rawat wrote:
> Jeff thanks for your quick efforts. I am using saxon8 in the dos mode 
> as below
> java -jar saxon8.jar a.xml a.xsl >a.htm
>
> and getting "run-time errors were reported."

Saxon is much more specific when it comes to errors. Either you have a 
really old version (try -? and check the version, it should *at least* 
be 8.9) or you are internally accidentally using the wrong processor 
(try system-property, see the list guidelines). It helps a lot of you 
paste the exact errors here.

Why are you calling saxon using the old-style commandline syntax? Maybe 
you weren't aware yet (but I believe saxon warns if you use the old 
style), but you should be calling it like so:

java -jar saxon8.jar -s a.xml -o a.htm a.xsl

or:

java -jar saxon8.jar -s a.xml > a.htm

> Not working!!!
> ERROR: The child axis starting at a text() node will never select 
> anything
You don't copy the error correctly. Please be specific, otherwise it is 
very hard for us on this list to help you correctly and we waste both 
your and our time trying to find out what you mean. If you have the 
following bit in your stylesheet:

   <xsl:template match="text()">
       <xsl:apply-templates></xsl:apply-templates>
   </xsl:template>

or any variant there-of (i.e., inside the matching text()[...] of jeff 
sese trying to do apply-templates) you will get a *warning*, not an 
error. The warning will list both the line number and the filename where 
the warning occurs. In your case, it could've been something like this:

Warning: on line 25 of file:/test-rawat.xslt:
 The child axis starting at a text() node will never select anything

And a warning *never* stops processing. That means that your output is 
probably still something (and not nothing). Show us the *real* input you 
are using and the *real* output you are getting and the *real* error. Or 
better yet, do as Jeff Sese, and try his solution. It works, really, and 
go from there. If you got trouble again when trying to adopt his 
solution to yours, you post a new question or a follow-up.

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma