Re: XSL stylesheet issue (newbie)

On 17/10/2024 19:41, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx wrote:
>> The stylesheet below is supposed to add a unique 'id' attribute named
'tocref001', 'tocref002' etc. to all <h2>, <h3> and <p class="rn_heading">
elements which are descendants of an element with an 'id' attribute named
'rn_release_notes'. The script runs without any errors, but does not add any
IDs.
>
>
> The sample input has e.g.
>
> B  html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
>
> meaning it has elements in the XHTML namespace, if you use an XSLT 2
> or 3 processor like Saxon Java, SaxonJS, SaxonC or Saxon.NET you can add
>
> B  xpath-default-namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
>
> on your xsl:stylesheet element in the XSLT code and your match
>
>> <!-- Adding id=toc001 attributes to headings to create hyperlink targets
for the TOC -->
>> <xsl:template match="*[@id='rn_release_notes']//h2 |
*[@id='rn_release_notes']//h3 |
*[@id='rn_release_notes']//p[@class='rn_heading']">
>>
> will match XHTML elements.
>

With more recent version of Saxon (11, 12 at least, I think) you could
also use your original stylesheet code but add the command line option

 B  -ns:##html5

for execution

The value|##html5|declares that an unprefixed element name will match
either a name in the XHTML namespace, or a name in no namespace.