Tim Hibbs wrote:
Second, with changes you implied in your response, I tried several
variations. I'm still missing something, probably elemental, of
importance. Additional guidance would be most welcome...
I now have the following, representative of all the variations I tried:
*_XML_*: (no change)
*_XSL_*:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns="http://www.fedex.com/schemas/freightRateQuotation";>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="To" />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="To">
To: <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
You have two issues now that I can see:
1) Declaring the default namespace using xmlns="xyz" in your XSL does
not actually affect element names listed in XPath expressions (the
select="To" in your <xsl:apply-templates> is an XPath expression). If an
element in an XPath expression does not have an explicit namespace
prefix, XPath assumes the null namespace, NOT the default namespace.
Therefore it is not finding any null namespace <To> elements in your
input XML, since your XML only contains <To> elements in the
http://www.fedex.com/schemas/freightRateQuotation namespace.
You need to use an explicit namespace declaration in your XSL such as
xmlns:fedex="http://www.fedex.com/schemas/freightRateQuotation";, and
then use <xsl:apply-templates select="fedex:To"/> and <xsl:template
match="fedex:To">
2) The XPath you're using in the <apply-templates/> statement actually
will not find the <To> element in your XML. This is because select="To"
is equivalent to select="child::To", which means you're telling it to
look for children elements of the current context node named <To>.
However your current context node is the document itself because you're
in the match="/" template. There are no direct children <To> elements
for the location you're at in your input document. You need to fix your
XPath so that it can find the elements you want, or alter your context
node so that it does contain the <To> element as a child.
For example you could use select="//fedex:To" or
select="descendant::fedex:To" or
select="fedex:tFreightRateQuotation/fedex:CommonData/fedex:To".
Good Luck,
Nathan
