That does eliminate the Saxon message, but the value of that @from
fails to appear in the output. Am I running afoul of type conflicts?
This is driving me buggy.
Bob P
simply(_dot_)bobp(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
On 8/31/06, Mukul Gandhi <gandhi(_dot_)mukul(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
You must do:
<xsl:value-of select="xtvd/@from" />
On 8/31/06, Bob Portnell <simply(_dot_)bobp(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
> Hi, kids. This is darn embarassing, but I've tried everything I know
> and several things I don't and gotten nowhere. The problem is
> ludicrously simple. Given this input XML (this is the root element of
> the file...):
>
> <xtvd from='2006-08-31T15:44:36Z' to='2006-09-06T15:44:36Z'
> schemaVersion='1.3' xmlns='urn:TMSWebServices'
> xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
> xsi:schemaLocation='urn:TMSWebServices
> http://docs.tms.tribune.com/tech/xml/schemas/tmsxtvd.xsd'>
>
> I'm trying to grab the dateTime in the from attribute and park it in
> my result HTML:
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <html>
> <head> (Omitted; it works) </head>
> <body>
> <h1>
> (other omitted but working code)
> <xsl:value-of select="@from" />
> </h1>
> </body>
> </html>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> When I run this through Saxon, it kindly informs me:
>
> Warning: on (that line where you've got @from):
> The attribute axis starting at a document-node() node will never
> select anything
>
> Which leads me to believe that somehow I'm not actually addressing the
> <xtvd> element. But I've tried every combination of symbols I can
> imagine to get down from document-node() to its child <xtvd> and
> almost nothing works. The closest I get is "//@from", which gets me
> that dateTime and a bunch of other dates further down the document. If
> I could figure out a sensible predicate for "//@from" to single out
> the one in <xtvd>, that'd work too.
>
> (And my copy of XSLT COOKBOOK is en route, so I shan't bother the list
> with baby questions too much longer.)
>
> Thanks,
> Bob P
> simply(_dot_)bobp(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi
http://gandhimukul.tripod.com
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