Subject: Re: Newbie Needs Help From: Steve Dahl <sdahl@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:34:53 -0500 |
Oren Ben-Kiki wrote: > Robert W. Hackenfort <rhackenfort@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >Just starting out in XML and XSL and tried to do a very simple document. > > > >The XML is: > > > ><?xml version="1.0"?> > ><?xml:stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test.xsl"?> > > > ><greeting>Hello XSL!</greeting> > > > >and the XSL is: > > > ><xsl:stylesheet > >xmlns:xsl="http//www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl" > >xmlns:fo="http//www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl/FO" result-ns="fo"> > > <xsl:template match= "greeting"> > > <fo:block color="red" font-size="16pt"> > > <process-children/> > > </fo:block> > > </xsl:template> > ></xsl:stylesheet> > > Which produces a blank result, since matching on the top-level element can > only done by using match="/" regardless of the actual element type which > appears there. "It made sense at the time" - it probably still does when > viewing it in the right way. It makes for an excellent FAQ question (if we > had a FAQ, that is) - it seems every new XSL user goes through finding this > out the hard way. > > Share & Enjoy, > > Oren Ben-Kiki On the contrary. The top-level element is *not* matchable by the "/" pattern. According to the August 18th draft: > 2.4.1 Root Node > > The root node is the root of the tree. It does not occur anywhere else in the tree. > It has a single child which is the element node for the document element of the document. So the root node is not the top-level element, but is the parent node of the top-level element--in other words, the root node is the Document node. The "/" pattern, in a conforming XSL processor, selects the Document, not the <greeting> element. Quite probably, the main problem here is that <process-children/> needs to be replaced with <xsl:apply-templates/>, as well as the fact that IE5b2 doesn't implement the FO part of XSL. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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