Declare a namespace prefix in your stylesheet, e.g.
xmlns:ca="http://www.sas.com/xml/namespace/sas_doc_cas_actions-1.0",
and then select ca:actionSet,
$myActionSet/ca:casActions/ca:actionSet[1], etc.



On 14.04.2015 23:07, Craig Sampson craig.sampson@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Thanks to Gerrit and Michael I am closer but not quite all the way there
> yet.
> 
>  
> 
> I removed the namespace from the second input file and modified my
> apply-templates to:
> 
>  
> 
>         *<**xsl:apply-templates
> **select*=/"$myActionSet/casActions/actionSet[1]"//*>*
> 
> * *
> 
>  
> 
> I now get to the actionSet templates.
> 
>  
> 
> How do I include the namespace info in the apply-templates call? I donbt
> see how to do this so thatbs why I temporarily removed the namespace
> declaration from my second input and the declaration for it from my
> transform.
> 
>  
> 
> Ibll try adding modes tomorrow to see if that also helps.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Craig
> 
>  
> 
> *From:* Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 14, 2015 4:34 PM
> *To:* xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Cc:* Craig Sampson
> *Subject:* Re:  Using doc( ) to get a second input file
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> On 14 Apr 2015, at 21:15, Craig Sampson craig.sampson@xxxxxxx
> <mailto:craig.sampson@xxxxxxx> <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     Hi All,
> 
>       I am trying to use the doc( ) function, in XSLT 2.0, to get a
>     second input file in one of my transforms. The primary input
>     contains an element brefActionSetb that triggers the logic to fetch
>     the second input.
> 
>      
> 
>       Within that template I do:
> 
>      
> 
>             *<xsl:variable name*=/"myActionSet" /
> 
>     /          /*select*=/"doc('file://sashq/root/pub/pubs_xiswork/sascrs/prod/v16/eclipse/workspace/castest/xml/actions.xml'
>     <file:///\\sashq\root\pub\pubs_xiswork\sascrs\prod\v16\eclipse\workspace\castest\xml\actions.xml'>)"/*/>*
> 
>      
> 
>       Which is successfully getting the second file. I know this because
>     I can write out to the log the contents of the file and I see the
>     text (no markup).
> 
>      
> 
>       But when I try to process this second file using:
> 
>      
> 
>             *<xsl:apply-templates select*=/"$myActionSet"/*/>*
> 
>      
> 
>       My transform fails due to the root element template being executed
>     a second time. In the root template I setup some java extension
>     processes that can only be run once so the second time through they
>     cause the transform to fail.
> 
>  
> 
> The usual way to solve this problem is with modes. Use
> 
>  
> 
>      *<xsl:apply-templates select*=/"$myActionSet" mode="actionSet"/*/>*
> 
>  
> 
> and add mode="actionSet" to the template rules for the second input file.
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
>      
> 
>       Ibve tried to solve the problem two different ways, but neither
>     works. First I tried adding a xpath specification to the doc
>     function so that the returned XML would start at the element I was
>     interested in, like so:
> 
>      
> 
>             *<xsl:variable name*=/"myActionSet" /
> 
>     /          /*select*=/"doc('file://sashq/root/pub/pubs_xiswork/sascrs/prod/v16/eclipse/workspace/castest/xml/actions.xml'
>     <file:///\\sashq\root\pub\pubs_xiswork\sascrs\prod\v16\eclipse\workspace\castest\xml\actions.xml'>)//actionSet[@id=babcb]"/*/>*
> 
>     * *
> 
>     but that caused the function to fail and not fetch the second file.
> 
>  
> 
> I think it did fetch the second file. But the path expression
> //actionSet didn't select anything, because the actionSet elements are
> in a namespace, and you didn't tell it to use a namespace.
> 
> 
> 
>     I also tried a fragment specification b#actionSetb but this also failed.
> 
>      
> 
>       I then tried to kick the second input files root element out of my
>     root template with a test for ancestor-or-self::casActions and a
>     test for descendant-or-self::casActions. But neither of these tests
>     worked on the fetched second file.
> 
>  
> 
> Again, that's because you overlooked the namespace declaration.
> 
>      
> 
>       Any help would be appreciated in solving this problem.
> 
>      
> 
>      
> 
> Note the
> namespace: xmlns="http://www.sas.com/xml/namespace/sas_doc_cas_actions-1.0"
> 
>  
> 
> Michael Kay
> 
> Saxonica
> 
>      
> 
>      
> 
>      
> 
>     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> 
>     <casActions version="1.0" xml:lang="en"
>     xmlns="http://www.sas.com/xml/namespace/sas_doc_cas_actions-1.0"
>     date="Tue Apr 14 07:31:01 2015" branch="v9cas">
> 
>        <actionSet id="cas.tkds1" date="Mon Apr 13 22:18:33 2015"
>     name="tkds1" dvdname="cas" scriptname="tkds1" prmname="tkds1">
> 
>           <label id="cas.tkds1.__label" key="TKDS1_LABEL_LIBRARY"
>     dvd="cas" msgfile="tkmds1">DATA Step</label>
> 
>           <action id="cas.tkds1.execPgm" name="execPgm" entry="execpgm">
> 
>              <label id="cas.tkds1.execPgm.__label"
>     key="TKDS1_LABEL_EXECPGM" dvd="cas" msgfile="tkmds1">Execute DATA
>     Step</label>
> 
>      
> 
>      
> 
>     Thanks for the help,
> 
>       Craig
> 
>      
> 
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> 
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