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 Hi All,
I need some assistance to compare a string value of an node before deciding on what child element/attribute to extract from. Here are the detail as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE html (View Source for full doctype...)> - <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:html="http://www.w3..org/1999/xhtml"> - <head> - <body ........ - <div id="container"> + <div id="header"> <div id="postmark" /> - <div id="content"> + <div id="as1"> ....... <h1>Employee Detail</h1> - <p> <strong>Firstname:</strong> <a shape="rect" title="Firstname of employee">John</a> </p> - <p> <strong>Surname:</strong> <a shape="rect" title="Lastname of employee">Smith</a> </p> - <p> <strong>Date of birth:</strong> 12/01/1932 </p> - <p> <strong>Sex:</strong> M </p> - <p> <strong>Interest:</strong> <br clear="none" /> Tennis <br clear="none" /> Movie <br clear="none" /> .....
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" exclude-result-prefixes="ns"> ( 1 ) <xsl:template match="/"> ( 2 ) <employee> ( 3 ) <xsl:for-each select="/ns:html/ns:body/ns:div[@id='content']/ns:p"> ( 4 ) <xsl:value-of select="ns:strong"/> ( 5 ) <xsl:choose> ( 6 ) <xsl:when test="Firstname:"> ( 7 ) <firstname><xsl:value-of select="."/></firstname> ( 8 ) </xsl:when> ( 9 ) <xsl:otherwise> ( 10 ) <firstname>Unknown</firstname> ( 11 ) </xsl:otherwise> ( 12 ) </xsl:choose> ( 13 ) </xsl:for-each> ( 14 ) </employee> ( 15 ) </xsl:template> ( 17 ) ( 18 ) </xsl:stylesheet>
I have no problem with test="Firstname" (line 6) but the ":" appears to be a special character that needs additional syntax (possible escape character) to pick up "Firstname:" together.
The error message has something like: Invalid QName on line 6 of stylesheet.... Your assistance would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Jack Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. http://au.rd.yahoo.com/galaxy/mail/tagline2/*http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/smarterinbox. 
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