You could ask this equally of XSLT 1.0.
You haven't defined a template that matches idnr, so your stylesheet behaves
as if you had defined
<xsl:template match="idnr">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
Look in the spec for "built-in template rules".
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Georg Hohmann [mailto:georg(_dot_)hohmann(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: 23 May 2006 13:39
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] XSLT2 processing question
Hello,
till today i thought that i was no beginner with xslt anymore
but now i'm not sure about. I thought i knew how xsl
processes data but that was wrong (i guess). I read many
basic informations about the processing structure but i
didn't get right idea what in my thinking is wrong. So i bend
my knees and ask the experts ;-)
What i got is something like this as the source:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<customers>
<info>This is data about customers</info>
<person>
<name>
<first>John</first>
<last>Doe</last>
</name>
<idnr>123</idnr>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<first>Tom</first>
<last>Test</last>
</name>
<idnr>456</idnr>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<first>Edna</first>
<last>Example</last>
</name>
<idnr>789</idnr>
</person>
</customers>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
My Stylesheet looks like this:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output name="out" method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"
indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:result-document format="out" href="result.xml">
<adress>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</adress>
</xsl:result-document>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="//name">
<firstname>
<xsl:value-of select="first"/>
</firstname>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
What i *want* to have is this:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<adress>
<firstname>John<firstname>
<firstname>Tom<firstname>
<firstname>Edna<firstname>
</adress>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
But the result i get from my stylesheet is this:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<adress>
This is data about customers
<firstname>John</firstname>
123
<firstname>Tom</firstname>
456
<firstname>Edna</firstname>
789
</adress>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
What am I doing wrong? I thought the stylesheet would do the
following: Go to the root element (match="/"), generate my root
("adress") and add the results of the following template
(apply-templates). The next template searches for the node "name"
everyware in the source ("//name"), and for each nodes it
finds it appends a node called "firstname" with the value of "first".
Well, obviously this is not (exactly) what it does. Why are
the values of "info" and "idnr" also in the output? I know
this is an issue about how xslt processes data and it's a
real beginner scenario, so i'm sorry to waste your time with
it. I'm not (only) interested in the right solution to get
the result i want but also for an explanation of where my
thinking is wrong.
I would be happy if someone could give me a hint ...
Regards,
G. Hohmann
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