Re: Weird problem with doc()

Thanks Graydon,


The external file looks like this, some ishfields have content, some don't.
FTITLE does have a string value.



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This code works fine outside of the DITA OT. I tried xsl:sequence instead of
xsl:value-of and it has the same weird behavior, it can access the file but
XPath has no effect.
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By the way my markup did not come through, the code was xsl:message elements
in my original post below.

Mark
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Subject: Re:  Weird problem with doc()
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On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 03:01:11AM -0000, Mark Giffin
m1879@xxxxxxxxxxxxx scripsit:
> Using XSLT 2.0, I'm using doc() to access data in an outside XML file.
> This is running inside the DITA Open Toolkit, which is an Apache Ant
> application. doc() accesses the whole file and displays the text
> content of elements when I do this:
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> OUTSIDE FILE - select="doc('file:/C:/Users/mark/test
> /publicationoutput.xml')"/>
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> This is expected. But when I add some XPath to get to certain data inside
the
> file like below, the output goes blank:
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> OUTSIDE FILE - /publicationoutput.xml')//ishfield[@name = 'FTITLE']"/>
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> The XPath is correct because I can run this exact code outside of the DITA
Open
> Toolkit and it works as expected. I realize there is a lot going on inside
the
> DITA OT but I'm just curious what kind of thing could cause this strange
> behavior of doc() being able to access the file, but failing with XPath.
There
> is no error reported.
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You should be getting a text node with content formed from the string
values of the ishfield elements making up the sequence of ishfield
elements where the name attribute value is FTITLE separated by spaces.
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Are you sure the ishfield elements have string values? (that is,
descendent text nodes?)
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What happens when you replace value-of with sequence?
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