Re: Xpath Syntax Issue

Is there any reason why this transformation works in Oxygen, using
Saxon and xsltproc, yet doesn't work from the Linux command line using
xsltproc? When running from the command line, all the attributes from
urlset are removed, but the unwanted URLs remain.

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Nathan Tallman <ntallman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Chris. I had just found this explanation on
>
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3836121/xslt-does-not-work-when-i-include
-xmlns-http-www-sitemaps-org-schemas-sitemap>
> when your email came in. This takes care of it.
>
> Much appreciation.
> Nathan
>
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Christopher R. Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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>> On 06/23/2012 10:38 PM, Nathan Tallman wrote:
>>> I still wasn't getting the results in my application, so I created
>>> pets.xml and sure enough the template worked. It only works with
>>> my original document if I remove attributes found in the root
>>> element.
>>>
>>> The original first 6 lines: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>>> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
>>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>>> xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
>>> http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
>>>
>>> I had to remove all attributes from <urlset> before the XSL would
>>> work. Do I need to reference the schema in my XSL?
>>
>> Ahh... the good ol namespace FAQ.
>>
>> Every element type name is a pair: namespace URI and local name.
>>
>> What you thought was null-namespace plus species is in fact
>> http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 plus species (often
>> written as {http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9}species).  An
>> XPath expression matching just species matches {}species, which is a
>> *different name* than
>> {http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9}species.
>>
>> You need, in your XSLT, to declare something like
>> xmlns:sitemap="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" and then
>> use sitemap:species in your XPath.  (A shorter prefix might be in
>> order, but a prefix is required for XSLT 1.0 and recommended (IMO) for
>> clarity for XSLT 2.0.)
>>
>> ~Chris
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