I have taken this as a tutorial problem for my own personal benefit, as my understanding of XPATH and namespaces is severely lacking. I see no evidence of processing problems, but plenty of reason to suspect problems with resolution of your "default namespaces." Your example works after making the following repairs:
-- supply the appropriate termination tags to the xml document -- supply the appropriate xml and stylesheet tag to the xsl -- in the stylesheet tag, supply all of the namespace declarations necessary to evaluate the stylesheet -- supply an explicit 'def' namespace declarations for the namespace used as the default in the xml document -- repair the XPATH to the 'languageCode' and 'responseStatus' nodes by specifying the 'SOAP-ENV:Body' nodes, not the 'soapenv:Header' nodes -- specify the 'def' namespace for the 'response', 'companyResponse' and 'responseHeader' nodes. -----Original Message----- From: NOEL ALEX MAKUMULI [mailto:alexnoe...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:29 PM To: xalan-j-users@xml.apache.org Subject: Transformation Problem Hello I am kind of new on working with XML and XSL transformation.. however i have worked with XSL transformation for a short time only.. i have a small problem which i am facing and i do not really understand what is causing although i think the problem has something to do with the namespace.. i try to transform a SOAP_Message XML file to a normal XML file and i can get the values below the Header..meaning inside the the body element... my XSL transformation looks like below... <xsl:template match="/"> <Root> <xsl:value-of select="SOAP-ENV:Envelope/soapenv:Header/cmn:timeStamp"/> <xsl:value-of select="SOAP-ENV:Envelope/soapenv:Header/ns:getReportResponse/response/compa nyResponse/responseHeader/cmn:languageCode" /> <xsl:value-of select="SOAP-ENV:Envelope/soapenv:Header/ns:getReportResponse/response/compa nyResponse/responseHeader/cmn:responseStatus" /> </Root> the timeStamp can be retrieved easily but however the field responseStatus can not be retrieved..i get an empty element.. can someone please tell me what i am doing wrong?? i have tried to search for a nice reason and people have just hinted the namespace issue and i have not managed to clear reason like what is the cause exactly... my sample XML message is below:: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";> <soapenv:Header xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";> <cmn:timeStamp xmlns:cmn="http://www.companyName.com/XMLSchema/compMain.xsd";>123445+0001</c mn:timeStamp> </soapenv:Header> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <ns:getReportResponse xmlns:ns="http://www.companyName.com/company/";> <response xmlns:fs="http://www.companyName.com/XMLSchema/Company_4.xsd"; xmlns:cmn="http://www.companyName.com/XMLSchema/compMain.xsd"; xmlns:pr="http://www.companyName.com/XMLSchema/details.xsd"; xmlns="http://www.companyName.com/XMLSchema/compMain3.xsd"; xsi:SchemaLocation="http://www.companyName.com/XMLSchema/compMain3.xsd";> <companyResponse> <responseHeader> <cmn:languageCode xmlns:cmn="http://www.companyName.com/XMLSchema/compMain.xsd";>com</cmn:langu ageCode> <cmn:state xmlns:cmn="http://www.companyName.com/XMLSchema/compMain.xsd";>1</cmn:state> </responseHeader> </companyResponse> </response> thanks for help in advance proby check out the rest of the Windows Live(tm). More than mail-Windows Live(tm) goes way beyond your inbox. More than messages
