perfect. code works great, and your explanation was extremely helpful. I only
hope I can get enough experience to help everyone else on the list out, too...
I'll probably be back with more questions in the future! you just earned
yourself a life-long list subscriber!
-L
-----Original Message-----
From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com]
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 11:14 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] not getting expected matches
Luke,
At 10:04 AM 9/16/2004, you wrote:
okay, the expression I'm using is:
<xsl:template match="//*[starts-with(name(), 'SEG')]/NAME">
<xsl:value-of select="."/><xsl:text>*</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
I'm thinking that this should return me the text of the
'NAME' child of
all of the elements that start with 'SEG' correct?
Correct, assuming this template ever gets matched. Which it will by
default, but without seeing the rest of the stylesheet we
can't know for sure.
but I have this as my XML...
<X12_810Transaction xmlns="http://red-man.com/namespace";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:schemaLocation="http://red-man.com/namespace
J:/XML/schemas/x12_810Transaction.xsd">
... ah, you have a namespace declared....
Make the red-man.com namespace explicit in your stylesheet
(no, you don't
have to change the source), and your template, with a little
tweaking, will
match:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:rm="http://red-man.com/namespace"; .... >
and then
<xsl:template match="*[starts-with(local-name(), 'SEG')]/rm:NAME">
<xsl:value-of select="."/><xsl:text>*</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
what I did:
* removed unhelpful "//" from match expression
* changed name() to local-name() so we don't have to worry about the
namespace prefix being there (or not)
* added the namespace prefix to rm:NAME so it would match a
NAME element in
the rm namespace
Now, assuming your stylesheet allows the nodes of interest to
be selected,
they will match.
I hope this helps,
Wendell
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