Subject: RE: [xsl] thoroughly confused about node() matching From: "Lars Huttar" <lars_huttar@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:49:45 -0600 |
> Lars Huttar wrote: > > As you point out, though, the spec disagrees with Kay > > about child::node() matching namespace nodes. Maybe the > spec writers > > forgot about namespace nodes when they wrote that?? > > Namespace nodes are not on the child axis. I'd think node() > would match namespace nodes if applied on the namespace axis. > > J.Pietschmann I totally agree... that's why I'm saying, since (I thought) the spec writers were talking about "node()" as a whole pattern, with no specified axis (and therefore using the "child" axis), why did they say o node() matches any node other than an attribute node and the root node instead of o node() matches any node other than an attribute node, the root node, and namespace nodes ? Did they really mean that namespace nodes are matched (in which case they're saying Kay is wrong), or did they make a mistake? But now that I look at the spec again, (section 5.2, http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116#patterns) I'm not sure their discussion about patterns applies only to the child axis. I'm too fuzzy in my understanding of patterns. If someone tried <xsl:apply-templates select="namespace::*"/> wouldn't this match a template like <xsl:template match="node()"> ... </xsl:template> ? I tried this just now, to see what would happen. To my surprise, it seems that the above template doesn't match namespace nodes, even if they are called with select="namespace::*". However I'm not at all confident that I've done this right. Can anybody straighten me out? Here's my XML: <?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test-namespace-node.xsl"?> <foo xmlns:r="blah" xmlns="kdjf"> <bar xmlns="54kk" xmlns:g="lksd">2</bar> </foo> And my stylesheet: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:output method="html"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <body> <xsl:apply-templates select="*" /> </body> </html> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="*"> <xsl:value-of select="name()" /> [ <xsl:apply-templates select="namespace::*" mode="nodenaming" /> ] <xsl:apply-templates select="*" /> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="node()" mode="nodenaming"> <p>Node name: <xsl:value-of select="."/></p> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> The output I get is: <html> <body>foo [ http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespaceblahkdjf ] bar [ http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespaceblah54kklksd ] </body> </html> which says to me that <xsl:apply-templates select="namespace::*" mode="nodenaming" /> is selecting the namespace nodes but no matching template is found (not even <xsl:template match="node()">). (And so the default template is used for the namespace nodes.) That's weird... why doesn't the "node()" pattern match the namespace nodes? This would contradict what I understand the spec as saying. I also tried changing <xsl:template match="node()" mode="nodenaming"> to <xsl:template match="namespace::node()" mode="nodenaming"> but that was an Invalid Match Pattern. (Saxon says: Axis in pattern must be child or attribute. OK, fair enough... but does that mean templates can only ever match children or attributes?) The above was done using IE (with MSXML 3) unless otherwise specified. Saxon gave me different results: <html> <body>foo [ ] bar [ ] </body> </html> I.e. no output at all for the namespace nodes. Weirder! I'm confused. Is Saxon telling me that <xsl:apply-templates select="namespace::*" /> doesn't select any namespace nodes?? I tried adding Num: <xsl:value-of select="count(namespace::*)" /> to the output inside the match="*" template, and it verified in both IE and Saxon that the number of namespace nodes for foo and bar was 3 and 4, respectively. So can anyone tell me why IE doesn't want to apply my intended template to the namespace nodes -- substituting a default instead -- and Saxon won't apply any templates to them? Thanks... Lars XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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