Hello, I'm a bit new to XSLT and Xalan.
I'm trying to do an example transformation from a book I have on XSLT. I've
tried it using both the command line tool and programmatically from a C++
program using the Xerces and Xalan libraries, and in both cases, the output
is simply the XSL file.
Here is the original XML file to transform, titled "people.xml":
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<people>
<person born="1912" died="1954">
<name>
<first_name>Alan</first_name>
<last_name>Turing</last_name>
</name>
<profession>computer scientist</profession>
<profession>mathematician</profession>
<profession>cryptographer</profession>
</person>
<person born="1918" died="1988">
<name>
<first_name>Richard</first_name>
<middle_initial>P</middle_initial>
<last_name>Feynman</last_name>
</name>
<profession>physicist</profession>
<hobby>playing the bongos</hobby>
</person>
</people>
Now here is the transform rule, titled "minimal.xsl":
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3c.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:template match="person">A person</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
If I try to apply the transform to the original document with the following
command:
>xalan -in people.xml -xsl minimal.xsl -out out.txt
out.txt just contains the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3c.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0"><xsl:template match="person">A
person</xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet>
Which is just the original xsl document, minus the whitespace between tags.
I've tried doing this same task programmatically and get the same results.
Also, I've tried this with a different stylesheet, and again, the general
pattern is that the output is simply the stylesheet, minus whitespace.
By the way, the book tells me that what I should expect as output is simply
the input with the tags stripped away, and the "person" tag replaced with
the text "A person".
I figure there's probably something I'm missing. Any help anyone could give
me would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Cooper
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