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From: "davidpbrown" <lists(_at_)davidpbrown(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 4:10 PM
Subject: [xsl] no input from document()?
This may be simple but having battled for a few hours now, I'm stumped and
not learning anything new.
Several searches on Google have me thinking it should be working but also
suggest problems existed with processors document() functions. I don't
know
now if it's me or the processors I'm using.
The document() below is leaving $B blank.. I've tried both Xalan and Saxon
7, and a whole host of variations but every time $B is empty.
It's intent (eventually) is to compare an opml rss feed list with a master
file
opml files containing outlines in the form
<outline type="rss" title="x" description=""
xmlUrl=http://www.example.com/feed.rss htmlUrl="http://www.example.com/"/>
?
Thanks in advance
davidpbrown
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent='yes' encoding="utf-8"/>
<xsl:variable name="A" select="/" />
<xsl:variable name="B" select="document('master_file.xml')//outline"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<!-- Process all outline nodes in A: -->
<xsl:for-each select="//outline">
<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="A" />
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="//outline" mode="A">
<!-- Figure out whether this A feed is matched in B,
and output an appropriate message. -->
<xsl:variable name="feed" select="@xmlUrl" />
<xsl:variable name="matching" select="$B[(_at_)xmlUrl = $feed]" />
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:if test="string($matching) != string($feed)">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>
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Although I'm no expert, especially on Xalan or Saxon specifically, it seems
like there could be two things wrong, either the file is not being found,
perhaps a relative address without the file:// prefix isn't enough, secondly
the document's outline elements are in a namespace declared higher up, what
does the document element look like?.
Good luck
--
Joe
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