You have a couple of other syntax errors, too. You forgot to close
your "<xsl:value-of..." elements with "/>". Try this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";> <xsl:output
method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates
select="/bookstore/book[position()<3]" /> </xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="bookstore/book"> <h1><xsl:value-of
select="title"/></h1> <xsl:value-of select="price"/>
</xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Wolfgang Laun
<wolfgang(_dot_)laun(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
A basic requirement for writing XML (and XSLT is XML) is to represent
all '<' that are part of the data (element or attribute or other) as
<
Another characters in the same category is '&', which must be written
as &. when it is a data character (and not part of a character
reference that begins with '&').
(You may also find '>' written as >.)
There's also a construct known as CDATA section, which is a general
"escape" mechanism for element data. See /bookstore/book[2] for
details ;-)
-W
On 17 December 2011 14:39, Roelof Wobben <rwobben(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com>
wrote:
I have this small xml file :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<bookstore>
<book>
<title lang="eng">Harry Potter</title>
<price>29.99</price>
</book>
<book>
<title lang="eng">Learning XML</title>
<price>39.95</price>
</book>
</bookstore>
And now I want to show only a few books.
According to this page : http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_syntax.asp I
can use this xslt :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="/bookstore/book[position()<3]" />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="bookstore/book">
<h1><xsl:value-of select="title"</h1>
<xsl:value-of select="price"
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
But if I try this on xmlspy I get this message :
Character '<' is grammatically unexpected
Reason: one of the following is expected (see below)
'"'
'&'
'&#'
'&#x'
[^<&"]
Details
XML production: Production 'AttValue' not satisfied
What part did I misunderstood.
Roelof
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