Re: Match pattern should get child content but gets si

[Joerg Heinicke]
> Doug Zirbel wrote:

> Have a look at built-in templates:
> http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N1665.html
>

To spell this out a little more than Joerg did, your (Doug's) template never
gets called.  The built-in default template is producing all the text you
see.  You can demonstrate that by adding a template that matches every node
but outputs nothing.  Add this as the last template:

<xsl:template match='*'/>

Now nothing will be displayed.

Your problem is that the processor never gets to your template at all, since
there is no path specified from the root to get there.  You should put that
path into the select attribute of the calling template.  Here's one way (not
necesssarily the best but good for highlighting the point):

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match='/moduleExternal'>
<results>
 <xsl:apply-templates select='//link/aValue'/>
</results>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="aValue">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match='*'/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Tom P

...
>
> > ====== Here's my simplified xml doc ========
> >
> > <?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
> > <?xml-stylesheet href =
> > 'file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/doug/My%20Documents/ADE3.xsl'
type =
> > 'text/xsl'?>
> >
> > <moduleExternal xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
> > <parm>
> > <link>
> > <aValue>Hello</aValue>
> > </link>
> > </parm>
> > <parm>
> > <constraint>
> > <aValue>OOPS</aValue>
> > </constraint>
> > <link>
> > <aValue>World</aValue>
> > </link>
> > </parm>
> > </moduleExternal>
> >
> > ======== AND THE XSL file ==========
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> >
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> >
> > <xsl:template match="link/aValue">
> > <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> > <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> >
> >
> > ====== I'm opening the xml file in IE6.0 and what I get is this =====
> >
> > Hello OOPSWorld
> >
> > =========== This may be obvious to everyone but I thought that a match
> > pattern of "link/aValue" would skip over the <aValue> child of
<constraint>
> > and get only <aValue> content that is a child of <link>.
> >
> > TIA for any help with this... I've not been able to successfully wade
> > through all of the posts in biglist.
> > Best regards,
> > Doug Zirbel
>
>
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