On Mon, Jan 28 2008 09:04:12 +0000, ericmutoniwabo(_at_)comcast(_dot_)net wrote:
Can some one help me with identity transformation?
...
I want to change the "price" of "orange" to $4 for example. My logic is that
I would
insert an element "price" with value $4.
I tried the xslt below without much success.
Saxon 8 gives this error message for your stylesheet.
XPST0003: XPath syntax error at char 1 on line 7 in {$4}:
expected "<name>", found "<numeric-literal>"
transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<!-- Import the identity transformation. -->
<xsl:import href="identity.xslt"/>
<xsl:template match="fruit/orange/price">
<xsl:element name="{name()}"><xsl:value-of select="$4"/></xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I am using saxon as processor.
when I apply "transform.xslt" against "fruit.xml", the value of
"fruit/orange/price" is not changing.
I can't seem to match the element that I want to change the
value of.
Anyone sees what I am doing wrong?
The new '$4' that you want to insert is literal text, but the value of
the 'select' attribute is an expression to be evaluated, and '$4' is not
a valid expression.
This should do what you want:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<!-- Import the identity transformation. -->
<xsl:import href="identity.xslt"/>
<xsl:template match="fruit/orange/price">
<xsl:element name="{name()}">$4</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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(Or you could have been long-winded and used '<xsl:value-of
select="'$4'"/>' to make the expression be the string '$4'.)
Regards,
Tony Graham.
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