Re: Output from node traversal not processing correctly

Michael Ludwig <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:03:58 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xalan.java.user
Message-ID <20100217220358.GE3060@wladimir> 
Tim Hibbs schrieb am 17.02.2010 um 10:52:39 (-0600):

> Personal Context:
>     - New to XSL, Xalan. Have taken care to try all options I can think
> of before soliciting for assistance here. Don't fully understand
> Debugger outputs (below).

I'd consider reading a good introductory tutorial or even a book.
Recommended teachers include:

* Michael Kay
* Jeni Tennison
* Evan Lenz

You should be able to locate books and tutorials.

> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
> <tFreightRateQuotation
> xmlns="http://www.fedex.com/schemas/freightRateQuotation">

Namespace declared and used!

> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

No namepace declared :-(

>     <xsl:template match="/">
>         <html>
>             <body>
>                 <xsl:apply-templates />

You need to put a suitable XPath here, else too much output.

>     <xsl:template match="To">
>             To: <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>         <xsl:apply-templates/>
>     </xsl:template>

Two items you absolutely want to learn about at the beginning:

* built-in template rules
* identity template (very common coding pattern)

> Logging information (from "Debugger Interface",

Don't worry about debugging yet.

Here's a working example:

C:\cygwin\tmp :: more /t2 tim.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:frq="http://www.fedex.com/schemas/freightRateQuotation"
  exclude-result-prefixes="frq"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <html>
      <body>
        <div>
          <xsl:apply-templates select="*/frq:CommonData/frq:To"/>
        </div>
      </body>
    </html>
  </xsl:template>

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

</xsl:stylesheet>

C:\cygwin\tmp :: xalan tim.xml tim.xsl
<html>
<body>
<div> To: John Customer</div>
</body>
</html>

Best,
-- 
Michael Ludwig