Re: [xsl] Bad schemas

["Jeff Shevlen" <jeff at passedpawn dot com>]

Thanks for your reply.  Sorry to get back to you so long after the
fact.  You've helped out quite a bit.


----- Original Message -----
From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@yahoo.de>
To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 12:54 AM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Bad schemas


> Jeff Shevlen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone shed some light on why Xalan parses an XML doc with no
> > schema no namespace (skills)differently than the identical doc
> > (skills2), with a schema (that is not validating properly yet),
and a
> > namespace?
>
> This is a FAQ. The XPath expressions and template match
> expressions need an explicit namespace prefix, even if
> your sourtce XML uses the default namespace and therefore
> no namespace prefix.
>
> Try
>
>   <?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
>   <xsl:stylesheet version = "1.0"
>     xmlns:xsl = "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>     xmlns:skills = "http://www.abc.com/skills";>
>
>     <xsl:output method = "xml" indent = "yes"/>
>
>     <xsl:template match = "//skills:related_skill">
>       <xsl:element name = "test">
>         <xsl:text>XXXX   </xsl:text>
>         <xsl:attribute name = "skill_IDREF">
>           <xsl:value-of select = "@skills:skill_IDREF"/>
>         </xsl:attribute>
>       </xsl:element>
>     </xsl:template>
>
> BTW regarding the template above:
> 1. You can write it much shorter
> 2. It probably wont work, because you add the text child
>     before the attribute.
> Try
>     <xsl:template match = "//skills:related_skill">
>       <test skill_IDREF="{@skills:skill_IDREF}">
>         <xsl:text>XXXX   </xsl:text>
>       </test>
>     </xsl:template>
> instead.
>
> Note that the "test" element is in the default namespace, not
> in the skills namespace.
>
> J.Pietschmann
>
>
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