Re: [xsl] no input from document()?

["Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "davidpbrown" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 4:10 PM
Subject: [xsl] no input from document()?


> This may be simple but having battled for a few hours now, I'm stumped and
> not learning anything new.
> Several searches on Google have me thinking it should be working but also
> suggest problems existed with processors document() functions. I don't
know
> now if it's me or the processors I'm using.
>
> The document() below is leaving $B blank.. I've tried both Xalan and Saxon
> 7, and a whole host of variations but every time $B is empty.
>
> It's intent (eventually) is to compare an opml rss feed list with a master
> file
> opml files containing outlines in the form
> <outline type="rss" title="x" description=""
> xmlUrl=http://www.example.com/feed.rss htmlUrl="http://www.example.com/"/>
>
> ?
> Thanks in advance
> davidpbrown
> -------
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> version="1.0">
> <xsl:output method="xml" indent='yes' encoding="utf-8"/>
>
>   <xsl:variable name="A" select="/" />
>   <xsl:variable name="B" select="document('master_file.xml')//outline"/>
>
>   <xsl:template match="/">
>   <!-- Process all outline nodes in A: -->
>    <xsl:for-each select="//outline">
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="A" />
>    </xsl:for-each>
>   </xsl:template>
>
>   <xsl:template match="//outline" mode="A">
>   <!-- Figure out whether this A feed is matched in B,
>                            and output an appropriate message. -->
>    <xsl:variable name="feed" select="@xmlUrl" />
>    <xsl:variable name="matching" select="$B[@xmlUrl = $feed]" />
>    <xsl:text>
> </xsl:text>
>
>    <xsl:if test="string($matching) != string($feed)">
>     <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
>    </xsl:if>
>   </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:transform>
>
>
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>
>
Although I'm no expert, especially on Xalan or Saxon specifically,  it seems
like there could be two things wrong, either the file is not being found,
perhaps a relative address without the file:// prefix isn't enough, secondly
the document's outline elements are in a namespace declared higher up, what
does the document element look like?.

Good luck

-- 

Joe

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