Re: why dosen't it read the xml info?

Yonit,

First, you should tidy up your code so that it is well-formed (i.e. giving
an opening <a> tag just after the xsl:for-each and adding a closing </font>
tag).  These might just be copying errors, though, particularly as I'd have
thought you'd get a lot sterner warnings if you had these in your real
stylesheet!

The source of your problem, though, is your use of namespaces.  Within your
source XML, you specify:

  <search xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-data"
          xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes">
  ...
  </search>

This states that the default namespace (i.e. the namespace for elements for
which no namespace is explicitly given) is
'urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-data'.  That means that the 'search'
element, and all its children, are within that namespace.

Within your stylesheet, though, you haven't specified those namespaces.
The stylesheet will look for a 'search' element with a null namespace, of
which there aren't any in your document.  There are three things that you
can do to make it work.  

Firstly, you can specify a named namespace within the stylesheet, and
specify that the elements you're searching for are within that namespace,
e.g.:

  <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                  xmlns:data="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-data">

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <html>
    <body>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="data:search/data:type" />
      <xsl:value-of select="data:search/data:type" />
      <xsl:value-of select="data:search/data:auctions" /> sales
      ...
    </body>
    </html>
  </xsl:template>

  </xsl:stylesheet>

Secondly, you can specify that as the default namespace, but make sure that
all the html elements that you use are within an HTML namespace.  Then you
can use an xsl:namespace-alias element to make sure that your HTML elements
aren't namespaced within your output:

  <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                  xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
                  xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-data">

  <xsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="html" result-prefix="#default" />

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <html:html>
    <html:body>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="search/type" />
      <xsl:value-of select="search/type" />
      <xsl:value-of select="search/auctions" /> sales
      ...
    </html:body>
    </html:html>
  </xsl:template>

  </xsl:stylesheet>

Finally, you can think again about whether you need to specify namespaces
in your source document in the first place.

I hope that helps,

Jeni

Dr Jeni Tennison
Epistemics Ltd, Strelley Hall, Nottingham, NG8 6PE
Telephone 0115 9061301 ? Fax 0115 9061304 ? Email
jeni.tennison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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