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 See <http://www.greenbytes.de/xmlfaq.html#ANSWER-xslt-vs-namespaces>. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Simon > Champion > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 3:27 PM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: newbie problem - writing XSL for an XML with namespaces. > > > Hi. > > I'm still fairly new to this XML & XSL stuff, so please be > patient with me. (I'm sure this is a really obvious question, but > I'm absolutely stuck on it) > > I have been given an XML document type to work with. It contains > invoicing data, and our primary use for it will be passing it > directly between two companies' software packages, but I also > need to write XSLT stylesheets so that the same invoices can be > viewed in a browser as well. > > I've written an XSLT, which works well, but unfortunately it > stops working as soon as I give it an XML that uses namespaces. > > Thus > <Invoice>....</Invoice> > works fine > > but > <Invoice > xmlns="urn:www.basda.org/schema/eBIS-XML_invoice_3.01.xml>....</Invoice> > gives me an empty page. > > I've been unable to find the reason why this is happening. Other > than the namespace, the two documents were identical, and The > XSLT doesn't reference any namespaces (other than it's own), so > why does it choke when there's a namespace in the file. > > Please can someone explain why it's not working for me, and how I > can sort it out. > > Many (many, many,...) thanks! :-) > > > > > Simon Champion. > MCS Ltd, Marlow, UK -- "Software for the Rental Industry" > > > > Here is a cut-down version of my XSLT, including the relevant > bits (this version doesn't include much data, but does > demonstrate the effect): > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" > version="1.0"> > <xsl:output method="html" version="4.0" > omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/> > <xsl:template match="/"> > <html> > <head> > <title>Hire Invoice</title> > </head> > <body class="Main"> > <xsl:apply-templates select="//Invoice" mode="inv_no"/> > <br/> > Invoice Date: > <xsl:value-of select="//Invoice/InvoiceDate"/> > <br/> > <b>INVOICE TO:</b><br/> > <xsl:apply-templates > select="//Invoice/InvoiceTo/Address/descendant::*"/> > </body> > </html> > </xsl:template> > > <xsl:template match="Invoice" mode="inv_no"> > <xsl:param name="Style" select="'inv_no'"/> > <table> > <tr> > <td Align="Center"> > <b>INVOICE NO:</b> > </td> > <td> > <b> > <xsl:value-of select="SuppliersInvoiceNumber"/> > </b> > </td> > </tr> > </table> > </xsl:template> > <xsl:template match="AddressLine"> > <xsl:param name="Style" select="'supp_addr'"/> > <xsl:for-each select="."> > <xsl:if test="string-length(.) > 0"> > <xsl:value-of select="concat(.,' ')"/> > <br/> > </xsl:if> > </xsl:for-each> > </xsl:template> > </xsl:stylesheet> > > > > PS - This XSLT I'm writing has to be able to display the invoices > coming from several different sources, which may or may not > include the namespace details, so I need a solution that will > work in both cases. (To further complicate the issue, the invoice > may (or may not) be wrapped inside another XML type - SOAP, > Biztalk, etc - in which case it would definitely require > namespaces - multiple namespaces even - but I haven't got that far yet) > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Make PC-to-Phone calls with Net2Phone. > Sign-up today at: http://www.net2phone.com/cgi-bin/link.cgi?121 > > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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