basic problem with Xalan

[CP Hennessy <CP...@iname.com>]

Hi,
	I'm a new user of Xalan and reasonably new to XML/XSLT.
I'm using the O'Reilly "XML in a nutshell", and trying to get the 
basic transformations working.
One of the XSLT examples is similar to the following XML :
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<people>
<person born="1912" died="1954">
  <name> <first_name>Alan</first_name> <last_name>Turing</last_name>
  </name>
  <profession>comp sci</profession>
  <profession>math</profession>
</person>
<person born="1923" died="1988">
  <name><first_name>Pat</first_name> <last_name>Top</last_name>
  </name>
  <profession>golf</profession>
  <profession>carpenter</profession>
</person>
</people>

and the example ( page 138 example 8.2 )
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transforms" >
</xsl:stylesheet>

and running Xalan gives me :
$ Xalan people.xml t.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transforms" 
version="1.0"/>

but the book tells me I should expect :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  Alan Turing

  comp sci
  math


  Pat Top

  golf
  carpenter

I even tried using xalan-j but got the following error :
file:///home/yamed/tmp/xalan-j_2_5_D1/bin/../../translate.xsl; Line #2; Column 
#82; XSLT Error (javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException): 
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: 
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: stylesheet requires attribute: 
version

What am I doing wrong ?
CPH

Re: basic problem with Xalan

[CP Hennessy <CP...@iname.com>]

Doh!
Thanks Don and Dave that was exactly my problem, and it was my
typo not one in the book.

Thank
CPH

RE: basic problem with Xalan

[Don McClimans <dm...@IntiElectronics.com>]

> 	I'm a new user of Xalan and reasonably new to XML/XSLT.
> I'm using the O'Reilly "XML in a nutshell", and trying to get the
> basic transformations working.
> One of the XSLT examples is similar to the following XML :

  <snip>

> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transforms" >
> </xsl:stylesheet>

Just a typo, it should be Transform, not Transforms.

By the way, I also picked up that book when starting with XSLT, and
discovered that it has a large number of inaccuracies, which confused me
numerous times. It sounds like you have a later version, since my text has
this example on page 131 (vs your reference of page 138), but nonetheless, I
would not recommend it. The "classic" text is XSLT Programmer's Reference by
Michael Kay; it's definitely worth getting.

Don

Re: basic problem with Xalan

[David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM <da...@us.ibm.com>]

> and the example ( page 138 example 8.2 )
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transforms" >
> </xsl:stylesheet>

It's either a typo in the book, or a typo in your stylesheet file.  The
namespace URI for XSLT is "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform", without
the trailing "s".

Dave