XSLT Debugger stalling on initial <!DOCTYPE> tag

Post by **LMCGIB10** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 6:01 pm

Hi Guys,

I'm (trying to ) write some XSLT to transform XHTML to XML, a snippet of the source XHTML is below.


<!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">

<head>

	<title>Building Standards Domestic Handbook - General</title>

	 

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

    <meta name="keywords" content="Building Standards Scotland, Technical Handbooks, Domestic, 2010" />

When stepping through the XSLT using the XSLT Debugger the trace indicates a red dot (error?) when it encounters the very first <DOCTYPE html...
blah blah blah> (line 1 in the XHTML)

The XSLT I've written to markup the "html/head/title" is the following:

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

<!-- sts_transform.xsl

This xsl document is the main xslt used to transform Scottish

Technical Standards domestic, into an XML representation

which comply with the crown legisaltion markup language 

xsd's.-->

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 

    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"

    xmlns="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation"

    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

    xml:base="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2003/8"

    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" 

    xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" 

    xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" 

    xmlns:ukm="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/metadata">

    <xsl:output method="xml"/>

    <xsl:output indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:strip-space elements="body"/>

    

    <xsl:template match="/">

        <Legislation>

            <ukm:Metadata>  

                <xsl:apply-templates select="html/head"/>

            </ukm:Metadata>

        </Legislation>

    </xsl:template>

    

    <xsl:template match ="title">

        <dc:title>

            <xsl:value-of select="."/>

        </dc:title>

    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The output I'm getting is

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

<Legislation xmlns="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:ukm="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/metadata">

   <ukm:Metadata/>

</Legislation>

So I can only assume there is a problem with my XSLT, but can someone poin out where please?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Lewis

Post by **adrian** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:45 am

Hello,

It's a namespace problem.
In the XHTML the default namespace is: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
In your stylesheet the default namespace is: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation
You need to map the XHTML namespace to a prefix and use that prefix in the XPaths (select/match) from the stylesheet.

Add to the root:
xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

Change:
<xsl:apply-templates select="html/head"/>
to:
<xsl:apply-templates select="html:html/html:head"/>

and

<xsl:template match="title">
to
<xsl:template match="html:title">

Regards,
Adrian

XSLT Debugger stalling on initial <!DOCTYPE> tag

XSLT Debugger stalling on initial <!DOCTYPE> tag

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