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RE: [xsl] RE: Yahoo shopping feed, XSLT choking on xmlns

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Please see

http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N5536.html#d6629e1012

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Ring [mailto:iring@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 26 August 2005 15:43
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] RE: Yahoo shopping feed, XSLT choking on xmlns
> 
> Sure thing.
> Here is the XML I'm using:
> http://api.shopping.yahoo.com/ShoppingService/v1/productSearch
> ?appid=Yah
> ooDemo&query=ipod+shuffle
> 
> Below is my best-so-far attempt at the XSL. It's long, so 
> I've shoved it
> to the bottom.
> 
> When I apply this to the XML, I my result is this:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><div id="yshop"><table/></div>
> 
> But if I edit the XML and remove the xmlns: attribute, I get the whole
> shebang with all my titles and pictures. But alas, I can't do that in
> the real world... but that's how I figured out what part of 
> the XML was
> choking my XSLT
> 
> Here's the XSL
> 
> 
> **-- begin xsl --**
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>     <xsl:template match="/">
>         <div id="yshop">
>             <table>
>                 <xsl:apply-templates select="ResultSet/Result" />
>             </table>
>         </div>
>     </xsl:template>
>     
>     <xsl:template match="Result">
>         <xsl:apply-templates />
>     </xsl:template>
>     
>         <xsl:template match="Offer">
>         <table>
>             <TR>
>                 <TD colspan="2"><h3><xsl:value-of
> select="ProductName"/></h3></TD>
>             </TR>
>             <TR>
>                 <TD>
>                     <img>
>                         <xsl:attribute name="src">
>                             <xsl:value-of select="Thumbnail/Url"/>
>                         </xsl:attribute>
>                         <xsl:attribute name="width">
>                             <xsl:value-of select="Thumbnail/Width"/>
>                         </xsl:attribute>
>                         <xsl:attribute name="height">
>                             <xsl:value-of select="Thumbnail/Height"/>
>                         </xsl:attribute>
>                     </img>
>                 </TD>
>                 <TD>
>                     <xsl:text>Price: $</xsl:text>
>                     <xsl:value-of select="Price"/>
>                     <br />
>                     <a>
>                         <xsl:attribute name="href">
>                             <xsl:value-of select="Url"/>
>                         </xsl:attribute>
>                         Buy now
>                     </a>
>                 </TD>
>             </TR>
>         </table>
>         </xsl:template>
>     
>     
>     <xsl:template match="ResultSet/Result/Catalog">
>         <table>
>             <tr>
>                 <td colspan="2"><h3><xsl:value-of
> select="ProductName"/></h3></td>
>             </tr>
>             <tr>
>                 <td>
>                     <img>
>                         <xsl:attribute name="src">
>                             <xsl:value-of select="Thumbnail/Url"/>
>                         </xsl:attribute>
>                         <xsl:attribute name="width">
>                             <xsl:value-of select="Thumbnail/Width"/>
>                         </xsl:attribute>
>                         <xsl:attribute name="height">
>                             <xsl:value-of select="Thumbnail/Height"/>
>                         </xsl:attribute>
>                     </img>
>                 </td>
>                 <td>
>                     <xsl:if test="UserRating/NumRatings &gt; 0">
>                         <xsl:text>Average Rating: </xsl:text>
>                         <xsl:value-of
> select="UserRating/AverageRating"/>
>                         /
>                         <xsl:value-of select="UserRating/MaxRating"/>
>                         <br />
>                     </xsl:if>
>                     <xsl:text>From $</xsl:text>
>                     <xsl:value-of select="PriceFrom"/>
>                     <xsl:text> to $</xsl:text>
>                     <xsl:value-of select="PriceTo"/>
>                     <br />
>                     <a>
>                         <xsl:attribute name="href">
>                             <xsl:value-of select="Url"/>
>                         </xsl:attribute>
>                         Buy now
>                     </a>
>                 </td>
>             </tr>
>         </table>
>     </xsl:template>
>  </xsl:stylesheet>
> **-- end xsl --**
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 10:36 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] RE: Yahoo shopping feed, XSLT choking on xmlns
> 
> What does the choking sound like through a stethoscope? Or to put it
> another
> way, could you be more precise about the symptoms you are observing?
> 
> It might also be useful to show your best attempt at a stylesheet to
> handle
> this - this will rapidly tell people where your misunderstanding lies.
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ian Ring [mailto:iring@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 26 August 2005 15:25
> > To: Ian Ring; xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [xsl] RE: Yahoo shopping feed, XSLT choking on xmlns
> > 
> > Take a look at this XML feed:
> > http://api.shopping.yahoo.com/ShoppingService/v1/productSearch
> > ?results=5
> > &appid=yahoodemo&query=cheese
> > 
> > The <ResultSet> node has an attribute:
> > xmlns="urn:yahoo:prods"
> > 
> > XSL is choking on that attribute. If I remove it, my transformation
> > proceeds fine. But - in the real world, I can't edit the 
> > incoming XML. I
> > only have control over my XSL sheet.
> > 
> > I've been trying for 3 days to make an XSLT that will transform that
> > into HTML.
> > I'm using Microsoft .NET, XSL version 1.0
> > 
> > Can anyone help me?
> > A little sample XSL code that gets past the <ResultSet> node 
> > is all I'll
> > need
> > ~ i

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