Re: Pulling out my hair: XSLT and XML with namespace

> I hope I'm not repeating a post of another message in this list, but I've
> looked everywhere on the net with both Google and Altavista, and cannot
> figure out what is wrong with my XPath/XSLT parsing.
> 
> Given the following XML file:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <definitions name="TemperatureService"
> targetNamespace="http://www.xmethods.net/sd/TemperatureService.wsdl"
> xmlns:tns="http://www.xmethods.net/sd/TemperatureService.wsdl"
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"
> xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
> xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">
>         <service name="TemperatureService">
>                 <documentation>Returns current temperature in a given U.S.
> zipcode  </documentation>
>                 <port name="TemperaturePort"
> binding="tns:TemperatureBinding">
>                         <soap:address
> location="http://services.xmethods.net:80/soap/servlet/rpcrouter"/>
>                 </port>
>         </service>
> </definitions>
> 
> and the following XSLT snippet:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> <xsl:output method="html"/>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="definitions/service/port">
> POST Path = <xsl:value-of select="soap:address/@location"/>
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> I get the following result:
> 
> (BLANK DOCUMENT)
You are really close (dont pull your hair out - trust me you'll want ot
keep it for as long as possible)

The problem is the xml document has a default name space
...xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">

Which (in a sense) means that <definitions> really is
<{http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/}definitions> (for give me if my
syntax is wrong.

What you can do is reference that name space in the xslt like so:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
	xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
	xmlns:booga="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
>
<xsl:output method="html"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:for-each select="booga:definitions/booga:service/booga:port">
	POST Path = <xsl:value-of select="soap:address/@location"/>
	</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

and that should yield

POST Path = http://services.xmethods.net:80/soap/servlet/rpcrouter

do you see why? repost if you dont.

Cheers,
Rob
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