Marc Ende schrieb am 01.12.2009 um 10:39:20 (+0100): > But within the source-xml they've got '.' in the tags. For example: > > <root.element> > <test.element>Hello World</test.element> > </root.element>
There's nothing unusual at all with that. > If I try to access the value with such xslt I got nothing: > > <xsl:template match="/"> > <test><xsl:value-of select="root.element/test.element"/></test> > </xsl:template> Works fine for me. Did you apply the stylesheet to the correct input? > I tried to escape the dots in the select with '\.' but that doesn't > work. It doesn't because you must not prefix the dot with a backslash. XPath does not follow the same rules as grep, or the shell, or Perl. > In XPath there was the . mentioned as a replacement for a character. > So it should also work on '.' I think. Don't know what you mean, but "." is the current context node. > By the way. Is there any way to 'copy' parts of one xml in the other > xml within the transformation? > It would be helpful if there are parts which doesn't need to > transformed (just copied). I think you're looking for the standard pattern called "modified identity transform". Googling for that will teach you the concept. It's not difficult and really practical. Best, -- Michael Ludwig
