Re: XSL content:encoded troubles

Martin Honnen wrote:
> 
> 
> Michael Vincent van Rantwijk wrote:
> 
> 
>> First of all, there's no XSL newsgroup so I'll have to post my 
>> question in the *mozilla.style and mozilla.xml newsgroup, because I 
>> don't know which one to use (and maybe these are both wrong).
> 
> For Mozilla specific XSLT questions there is the newsgroup 
> netscape.public.mozilla.layout.xslt. But the topic there is not general 
> XSLT questions.

So I noticed, thanks anyway.

>> My question is: should something like this work in Mozilla?
>>
>>       <xsl:attribute name="description">
>>         <xsl:choose>
>>           <xsl:when test="content:encoded">
>>             <xsl:value-of select="content:encoded"/>
>>           </xsl:when>
>>           <xsl:otherwise>
>>             <xsl:value-of select="description"/>
>>           </xsl:otherwise>
>>         </xsl:choose>
>>       </xsl:attribute>
>>
>> To read/assign the data of:
>>
>> <content:encoded>
>> <content:encoded>
> 
> Is that supposed to be a snippet of XML? Then it should probably look
>   <content:encoded>
>   </content:encoded>

Yeah, just a hasty post and a stupid little typo.

> As for the XSLT it looks fine as a snippet but of course to write an 
> XPath expression like e.g. content:encoded you need to make sure that 
> the prefix content is bound to a namespace URI. 

Yikes, I don't have that, that must be it!

> So make sure your 
> stylesheet element for instance has e.g.
>   <xsl:stylesheet
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>     version="1.0"
>     xmlns:content="http://example.com/2005/09/01/n1">
> where you replace http://example.com/2005/09/01/n1 with the namespace 
> URI the elements in the source document are in.

Do I need to add the output of
document.documentElement.namespaceURI as URI for xmlns:content="" ?

Please note that I don't know if that works, just a wild guess ;)

Thanks for helping me out,
Michael