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Subject: RE: [xsl] Namespaces
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 21:40:29 +0100

It wouldn't surprise me if that innocent looking DTD art501.dtd declares
a default namespace for the "article" element. This practice is not
uncommon, and is deliberately designed to catch out the unsuspecting
stylesheet writer who thinks that they don't need to look at the DTD.

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> David Totten
> Sent: 09 June 2003 19:16
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Namespaces
> 
> 
> Given the following xml,
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet href="elsevier-art5.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//ES//DTD journal article DTD version
> 5.0.1//EN//XML" "art501/art501.dtd">
> <article docsubtype="fla" xml:lang="en">
>  <item-info>
>   <jid>CPLETT</jid>
>   <ce:pii>S0009261403003269</ce:pii>
>   <ce:copyright type="full-transfer" year="2003">Elsevier Science
> B.V.</ce:copyright>
>  </item-info>
>  <head>
>   <ce:title>test</ce:title>
>   <ce:author-group>
>    <ce:author>
>     <ce:given-name>Totten</ce:given-name>
>     <ce:surname>David</ce:surname>
>    </ce:author>
>   </ce:author-group>
>  </head>
> </article>
> 
> using this xsl stylesheet:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> 
> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
> <!ENTITY xhtml-lat1
>     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-lat1.ent">
> <!ENTITY xhtml-special
>     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-special.ent">
> <!ENTITY xhtml-symbol
>     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-symbol.ent">
> <!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">
> <!ENTITY copy "&#169;">
> <!ENTITY quote "&#34;">
> <!ENTITY rdquo "&#34;">
> <!ENTITY ldquo "&#34;">
> <!ENTITY reg   "&#174;">
> ]>
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>     xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd"
>     xmlns:sb="http://www.elsevier.com/common/struct-bib/dtd"
>     xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
>     
> <xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF8"/>
> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>     <HTML>
>       <HEAD>
>         <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-language" CONTENT="en-US"/>
>         <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type"
>           CONTENT="text/html;" CHARSET="UTF-8"/>
>         <TITLE>
>           <xsl:value-of select="article/item-info/ce:pii"/>
>         </TITLE>
>       </HEAD>
>       <BODY BGCOLOR="white">
>      </BODY>
>     </HTML>
>   </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet> 
> 
> 
> I would love to know how to get a value for my <TITLE> tag. 
> What am I doing 
> wrong, or misunderstanding?
> 
> Dave Totten
> 
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> 


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