Re: Output is incorrect...

Peter,

It's your input that's incorrect. The stylesheet asumes that there are attributes named 'name', but your document doesn't have those. The strings "name="Test doc" etc. are just pcdata, and nothing else.

:-) Aad Kamsteeg

Peter McEvoy wrote:
> 
> I am writing a very simple application that converts XML  into HTML using an
> XSL sheet  However, I am getting confusing output that I just do not exepect
> to see.  I'd like to think I understand XSL sheets etc, but this is just
> wierd.
> 
> The following sample XML file:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII" standalone="no" ?>
> 
> <!DOCTYPE cat SYSTEM
> "file:///view/pete_devel/vob_minerva/htdocs/xml/categories.dtd">
> 
> <cat name="Top" id="_0">
>    <cat name="Category level 1" id="_1">
>       <art id="_123.456"> name="Test doc"</art>
>       <art id="_123.457"> name="Test doc again"</art>
>       <art id="_123.458"> name ="Another Test doc"</art>
>       <art id="_123.459"> name="Last Test doc"</art>
>       <art id="_123.459"> name="LAST Test doc"</art>
> 
>       <cat name="Category level 2" id="_2">
>         <cat name="Category level 3.1" id="_3"/>
>         <cat name="Category level 3.2" id="_4"/>
>         <cat name="Category level 3.3" id="_5"/>
>       </cat>
>    </cat>
> </cat>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> (hopefully this hasn't got too mangled by the mailer)
> 
> Ant the following XSL style sheet:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>          version="1.0"
>          xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";>
> 
> <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
> <xsl:param name="id"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="cat[@id=$id]">
>   <html>
>   <body>
>      <table border="1" width="95%">
>         <tr>
>            <td>
>            <b>
>            <xsl:value-of select="./@name"/>
>            </b>
>            </td>
>         </tr>
>      </table>
>   </body>
>   </html>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> (this is a very much simplified version of the actual stylesheet that I'm
> developing, but it replicates the problem and cuts to the chase as it were.
> 
> So basically my problem is this.
> 
> when id=_0 (the parameter) is passed to the stylesheet, the output is as
> expected, a HTML table that contains the text "Top".  Similarly for id=_1 -
> the text is "Category Level 1".  However, when id=_2, I seem to get the
> contents of the "art" nodes
> 
> Peter McEvoy
> Senior Technical Analyst
> IONA Technologies PLC
> 
>  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list

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