simple identity transform - what am I missing?

Post by **stevedonie** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:36 am

I must be missing something simple. Using this input:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">



<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">

    <head>

        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

        <title>Simple</title>

        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen,print" href="style.css" />

    </head>

    <body>

        <div style="text-align: center; ">

           <p>

               <a href="Next.html">

                Next >

               </a>

           </p>

        </div>

    </body>

</html>

and this stylesheet:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:preserve-space elements="*"/>



<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="no" encoding="UTF-8" 

  doctype-public="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>



<xsl:template match="@*|node()">

  <xsl:copy>

    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>

  </xsl:copy>

</xsl:template>



<xsl:template match="div">

  <description>n/a</description>

  <xsl:copy>

    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>

  </xsl:copy>

</xsl:template>



</xsl:stylesheet>

I am not seeing what I expect, which is that the div gets a description added before it. Am I missing something? Seems like the second template never matches.

Post by **stevedonie** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:30 am

I think I found it! I was transforming XHTML, and apparently that is special - found what I needed here:

http://www.xmlplease.com/xhtmlxhtml

Argh!

Post by **george** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:20 am

The problem is that your template matches div from no namespace while your document contains div in the http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace. The simplest way, as you use XSLT 2.0, is to declare the default XPath namespace adding xpath-default-namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" on the stylesheet

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"

  xpath-default-namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

...

Best Regards,
George

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