Re: [xsl] Xpath Syntax Issue

Subject: Re: [xsl] Xpath Syntax Issue
From: Nathan Tallman <ntallman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:56:07 -0400
Thanks Chris. I had just found this explanation on
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3836121/xslt-does-not-work-when-i-include
-xmlns-http-www-sitemaps-org-schemas-sitemap>
when your email came in. This takes care of it.

Much appreciation.
Nathan

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Christopher R. Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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> On 06/23/2012 10:38 PM, Nathan Tallman wrote:
>> I still wasn't getting the results in my application, so I created
>> pets.xml and sure enough the template worked. It only works with
>> my original document if I remove attributes found in the root
>> element.
>>
>> The original first 6 lines: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9";
>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>> xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
>> http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd";>
>>
>> I had to remove all attributes from <urlset> before the XSL would
>> work. Do I need to reference the schema in my XSL?
>
> Ahh... the good ol namespace FAQ.
>
> Every element type name is a pair: namespace URI and local name.
>
> What you thought was null-namespace plus species is in fact
> http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 plus species (often
> written as {http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9}species).  An
> XPath expression matching just species matches {}species, which is a
> *different name* than
> {http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9}species.
>
> You need, in your XSLT, to declare something like
> xmlns:sitemap="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"; and then
> use sitemap:species in your XPath.  (A shorter prefix might be in
> order, but a prefix is required for XSLT 1.0 and recommended (IMO) for
> clarity for XSLT 2.0.)
>
> ~Chris
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