RE: how to process a element named <rule:something>

Hi Lisa,
Thanks so much. Yes I got it to working and I can
select the elements I wanted. I am using 
<xsl:template match="rule:choose">

****

</xsl:template>

So its working as I want it to.
Thanks for your help and explaining the concept.
Abhi


--- Xia Li <xli(_at_)galdosinc(_dot_)com> wrote:
> You do not need to do anything at that location,
> "http:www.somthing.com/rule", But you need to tell
> XSLT processor where the
> <rule:something> comes from, otherwise XSLT
> processor couldn't recognize
> this element. That's why you need to declare it in
> the <xsl:stylesheet>
> element. In my understanding, An XSLT processor uses
> the namespace
> declaration to bind the prefix "rule" with the
> namespace
> "http:www.something.com/rule", and uses the
> namespace and local name
> "Choose" to locate the <Choose> element in source
> XML document. It doesn't
> use the prefix and local name such as "rule:Choose"
> to locate the element.
> If you do not declare namespace, then XSLT processor
> cannot resolve the
> prefix "rule", therefore it cannot recognoze the
> element "rule:Choose" in
> source document. That's why it complains "xmlns:rule
> not declared". Hope
> this makes sense to you.
>
> Lisa
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com]On
> Behalf Of Abhijit
> Junnare
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:55 PM
> To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> Subject: RE: [xsl] how to process a element named
> <rule:something>
>
>
> I think I tried it. But its worth giving it a try
> again. Does
>
> "http:www.somthing.com/rule"
>
> have any significance. I mean do I really need to
> have
> some thing at this location. I dont understand
> namespaces well I think. So probably I am not
> following what you are saying.
> Thanks,
> Abhi
>
> --- Xia Li <xli(_at_)galdosinc(_dot_)com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   Did you declare the namespace for the prefix
> > "rule"? Try to include the
> > the namespace declaration
> > "xmlns:rule="http:www.somthing.com/rule" in the
> > <xsl:stylesheet> element like this,
> >
> > <xsl:stylesheet
> > xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'
> > version='1.0'
> > xmlns:lang='en'
> > xmlns:saxon='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'
> > xmlns:rule="http:www.somthing.com/rule"
> > >
> > <xsl:template match="rule:Choose">
> >     "THIS IS CHOOSE RULE"
> > </xsl:template>
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> >
> > It should work.
> >
> > Lisa
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> > [mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com]On
> > Behalf Of Abhijit
> > Junnare
> > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:21 PM
> > To: XSL-List(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> > Subject: [xsl] how to process a element named
> > <rule:something>
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> > I have an XML file which has bunch of rules in it
> > such
> > as
> >
> > <rule:choose
> > xmlns:rule="http:www.somthing.com/rule">
> > SOME TEXT
> > </rule:choose>
> >
> > I am writing a stylesheet and I am in debugging
> > process. I want to display something whenever the
> > element <rule:choose> appears in the XML document.
> I
> > dont want to display the actual contents of this
> > element but just some generated text such as "This
> > is
> > Choose rule" or something like this.
> > Is it possible to process such elements using XSL?
> > I tried something like this
> >
> > <xsl:template match="rule:Choose">
> > "THIS IS CHOOSE RULE"
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > But I get an error saying xmlns:rule not declared.
> > What do I need to do? Is there any other way to
> > handle
> > such thing.
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >
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