RE: [xsl] Saxon8: XML to XML transformation

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

XMLSpy is probably taking its input from the Microsoft MSXML3 parser, which
notoriously strips whitespace text nodes from the input without you asking
it to. When you do

<xsl:apply-templates select="../superclass/class/child::node()"/>

you are selecting three nodes: two whitespace text nodes, and an element,
and you are processing all of these. The default rule for a text node is to
copy it to the output.

To make your stylesheet work with a standards-compliant XML parser, either
change the above to:

<xsl:apply-templates select="../superclass/class/child::*"/>

so you only process child element nodes, or (preferably) write

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

at the top level of the stylesheet, to indicate that all whitespace text
nodes should be removed before further processing.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marco Pehla [mailto:marco.pehla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 28 August 2006 11:37
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Saxon8: XML to XML transformation
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I've got a little problem and don't know how to solve it. I 
> use Saxon8 inside a JavaBean and want to transform some data 
> from an XML file to another XML file. If I use XMLSpy and 
> apply the XSLT transformation to the XML file I get the 
> desired output, but not with Saxon8.
> 
> What am I supposed to do to get the same output like with 
> XMLSpy? Why does Saxon behave like that?
> 
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> with kind regards,
> Marco
> 
> 
> XML input:
> ---------------
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <molecule>
>   <object>
>     <variable name="marco"/>
>   </object>
>   <superclass isaType=":">
>     <class>
>       <constant name="employee"/>
>     </class>
>   </superclass>
> </molecule>
> 
> 
> XMLSpy output:
> -----------------------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <ObjectClassificationAtom class="employee">
>         <ObjectVariable name="marco" class="employee"/> 
> </ObjectClassificationAtom>
> 
> 
> Saxon8 output:
> ----------------------
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <ObjectClassificationAtom class="
>       employee
>     ">
>   <ObjectVariable name="
>     marco
>   " class="
>       employee
>     "/>
> 
> </ObjectClassificationAtom>
> 
> 
> my simple XSLT transformation:
> ----------------------------------------------
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
> xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2006/xpath-functions";
> xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon";>
>   <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="/" >
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="molecule">
>     <xsl:if test="superclass/@isaType = ':'">
>       <xsl:element name="ObjectClassificationAtom">
>         <xsl:attribute name="class">
>           <xsl:apply-templates 
> select="superclass/class/child::node()"/>
>         </xsl:attribute>
>         <xsl:apply-templates/>
>       </xsl:element>
>     </xsl:if>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="object">
>     <xsl:element name="ObjectVariable">
>       <xsl:attribute 
> name="name"><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:attribute>
>       <xsl:if test="../superclass">
>         <xsl:attribute name="class">
>           <xsl:apply-templates 
> select="../superclass/class/child::node()"/>
>         </xsl:attribute>
>       </xsl:if>
>     </xsl:element>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="constant | variable | class">
>     <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
>   </xsl:template>
>   <!-- ignore all the rest -->
>   <xsl:template match="*"/>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
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