Michael, Many thanks for the feedback.
Prior to my solicitation for help from this group, I'd read through (but not fully understood) the book "Definitive XSLT and Xpath" by G. Ken Holman. I also went through both the XSLT and Xpath tutorials from http://www.w3cschools.com. I THOUGHT I had enough information to proceed; however, it's obvious that I missed some critical nuances of namespaces and Xpath syntax that kept my XSL from being processed correctly. I'll take a look at the books you've suggested as additional resources. I've had a small interchange with Nathan Nadeau about the namespace issue (and we've copied the list recipients on this interchange), which you've also defined as something I have been doing incorrectly. I'm not really clear WHY we need a namespace for the project I'm working on, so I'll soon be trying to process without a namespace specifier to see if that makes things easier to work with. In response to Nathan's feedback, and your confirmation below, I made similar changes and re-ran my process. I'm very pleased to report that it worked, and I think I have enough information at this point to proceed further in some sort of rudimentary way. I will take your advice and review the built-in template rules (Nathan also provided some useful information on that in one of our exchanges) as well as the identity template. I'm not sure what the latter is at this point, as I don't recall seeing that phrase before. I sincerely appreciate the time you and Nathan have taken out of your day to assist. I hope I'll be able to return the favor soon. Tim Hibbs FedEx Services 350 Spectrum Loop Colorado Springs, CO 80921 719-484-2131 -----Original Message----- From: Michael Ludwig [mailto:mil...@gmx.de] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 3:04 PM To: Xalan-J Users Subject: Re: Output from node traversal not processing correctly Tim Hibbs schrieb am 17.02.2010 um 10:52:39 (-0600): > Personal Context: > - New to XSL, Xalan. Have taken care to try all options I can > think of before soliciting for assistance here. Don't fully understand > Debugger outputs (below). I'd consider reading a good introductory tutorial or even a book. Recommended teachers include: * Michael Kay * Jeni Tennison * Evan Lenz You should be able to locate books and tutorials. > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> > <tFreightRateQuotation > xmlns="http://www.fedex.com/schemas/freightRateQuotation";> Namespace declared and used! > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";> No namepace declared :-( > <xsl:template match="/"> > <html> > <body> > <xsl:apply-templates /> You need to put a suitable XPath here, else too much output. > <xsl:template match="To"> > To: <xsl:value-of select="."/> > <xsl:apply-templates/> > </xsl:template> Two items you absolutely want to learn about at the beginning: * built-in template rules * identity template (very common coding pattern) > Logging information (from "Debugger Interface", Don't worry about debugging yet. Here's a working example: C:\cygwin\tmp :: more /t2 tim.xsl <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:frq="http://www.fedex.com/schemas/freightRateQuotation"; exclude-result-prefixes="frq" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";> <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <body> <div> <xsl:apply-templates select="*/frq:CommonData/frq:To"/> </div> </body> </html> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="frq:To"> To: <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> C:\cygwin\tmp :: xalan tim.xml tim.xsl <html> <body> <div> To: John Customer</div> </body> </html> Best, -- Michael Ludwig
