RE: not getting expected matches

perfect. code works great, and your explanation was extremely helpful. I only
hope I can get enough experience to help everyone else on the list out,
too...

I'll probably be back with more questions in the future! you just earned
yourself a life-long list subscriber!

-L

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 11:14 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  not getting expected matches
>
>
> Luke,
>
> At 10:04 AM 9/16/2004, you wrote:
> >okay, the expression I'm using is:
> >
> ><xsl:template match="//*[starts-with(name(), 'SEG')]/NAME">
> >         <xsl:value-of select="."/><xsl:text>*</xsl:text>
> ></xsl:template>
> >
> >
> >I'm thinking that this should return me the text of the
> 'NAME' child of
> >all of the elements that start with 'SEG' correct?
>
> Correct, assuming this template ever gets matched. Which it will by
> default, but without seeing the rest of the stylesheet we
> can't know for sure.
>
> >  but I have this as my XML...
> >
> ><X12_810Transaction xmlns="http://red-man.com/namespace"
> >xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> >xsi:schemaLocation="http://red-man.com/namespace
> >J:/XML/schemas/x12_810Transaction.xsd">
>
> ... ah, you have a namespace declared....
>
> Make the red-man.com namespace explicit in your stylesheet
> (no, you don't
> have to change the source), and your template, with a little
> tweaking, will
> match:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:rm="http://red-man.com/namespace" .... >
>
> and then
>
> <xsl:template match="*[starts-with(local-name(), 'SEG')]/rm:NAME">
>          <xsl:value-of select="."/><xsl:text>*</xsl:text>
> </xsl:template>
>
> what I did:
> * removed unhelpful "//" from match expression
> * changed name() to local-name() so we don't have to worry about the
> namespace prefix being there (or not)
> * added the namespace prefix to rm:NAME so it would match a
> NAME element in
> the rm namespace
>
> Now, assuming your stylesheet allows the nodes of interest to
> be selected,
> they will match.
>
> I hope this helps,
> Wendell
>
>
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