Re: [xsl] Why doesn test work in one case, but not another???

["Jon Gorman" <jonathan.gorman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/10/06, Shirley Gasch <sgasch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using XML Version 1 and have two situations of search results
> pages. In one, a test between a text variable in Filemaker Pro and a
> text value works perfectly, but in another, it doesn't.
> Unfortunately, I can't see what is different about them.  I have
> included the front part from both and the test areas from both:

Without seeing a sample of the input xml, how are we supposed to know
either?  I'm guessing most people on this list don't use Filemaker
Pro, and hence can't test the stylesheets with their system.  For the
rest of us, we don't know your input xml or what isn't working. Do you
not get anything?  Do you get an error?  Does it randomly insert lines
from a Finnish punk-rock opera?

My guess is that one of the paths is wrong, leading to an empty
node-set, which in turns "prints nothing".  It would be a lot easier
to figure out that if you had the xml.

Of course, it could be an issue internally with how FIlemaker Pro is
working.  Have you tried replicating the stylesheet behavior in
another processor?  You could have the process dump out the raw XML
and convert it with the stylesheets.


> Note: In all of these cases, the variables are defined only in Filemaker
Pro.

That makes no sense.  Do you mean the parameters are passed in by Filemaker
Pro?

> I have studied both of these examples, but don't see why one works
> and one doesn't!!!  Any suggestions???

Some suggestions: Try running it via the command-line outside of
Filemaker Pro.  Give us an example of the input and the expected
output.  Tell us what went wrong.  More punctuation has rarely lead to
an answer getting solved quicker.

Jon Gorman