problem selecting non-child elements when using name spaces

[Karen Schuchardt <kl...@pnl.gov>]

Hi,

I am trying to convert my .xsl file to make use of a name space.  I was
able to do this
successfully with most of the apply-templates select statement but I'm
having trouble with
one in particular and I'm wondering if this is a bug or if I just can't
figure it out.  My
document looks something like

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ris  xmlns="ris.xsd">
  <ris-directory-schema>

     <!-- lots of these -->
    <class type="abstract" id="netscape::top">
      <name>Netscape::top</name>
      <description>stuff</description>
      <attribute ref="#objectClass" required="true"/>
      <attribute ref="#aci" required="false"/>
      <attribute ref="#description" required="false"/>
    </class>


  <!-- then lots of these; one for each reference above -->
  <attribute-type id="description">
    <name>description</name>
    <type type="string"/>
    <description>stuff</description>
  </attribute-type>

 </ris-directory-schema>

</ris>


When I am in a template processing the class/attribute element, I need
to select the
attribute-type element that matches the ref= value (minus the #).  $attr
is a parameter
which is the ref= value without the #.

If I take the namespace out I can successfully match using
<xsl:apply-templates select="//attribute-type[@id=$attr]"/>

However with the namespace included in the ris element, the following
does not match
<xsl:apply-templates select="//ris:attribute-type[@id=$attr]"/>

I have tried numerous other approaches and can't seem to find anything
that works.
I tried using patterns like
    <xsl:apply-templates
select="/from-children(ris:ris-directory-schema)/from-children(ris:attribute-type[from-attributes(id)='acl'])"/>

Note that in this exmple I hardwired the attribute name to aci.  All my
attempts at this type
of syntax cause parsing errors.  Are from-children and from-attributes
not supported?

I also tried just    <xsl:apply-templates select="id($attr)"/>
which seems to match nothing - probably because its expected it to be a
child of the current node.
The documentation is unclear.

Syntax like <xsl:apply-templates select="//id($attr)"/> causing an
exception during parsing.

XSL Error: pattern = '//id($attr)'
Unknown nodetype: id
 Remaining tokens: ( '(' '$' 'attr' ')'), style tree node:
org.apache.xalan.xslt.ElemApplyTemplates@c96e431a
XSL Error: Could not parse ris.xsl document!, Location
file:/files/cpsetop/devroot/cpse/ris/apps/xmlxform/ris.xsl, line 105,
offset 48
XSL Error: SAX Exception, Location
file:/files/cpsetop/devroot/cpse/ris/apps/xmlxform/ris.xsl, line 105,
offset 48
Exception in thread "main" org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLProcessorException:
pattern = '//id($attr)'
Unknown nodetype: id
 Remaining tokens: ( '(' '$' 'attr' ')')
        at org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTEngineImpl.error(Compiled Code)
        at
org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTEngineImpl.processStylesheet(Compiled Code)
        at org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTEngineImpl.process(Compiled Code)
        at xmlxform.main(Compiled Code)


Any hints would be appreciated.  Perhaps there is a simple way to do
this that I just don't know about.

Karen

Re: problem selecting non-child elements when using name spaces

["Wayne A. Moore" <wm...@stanford.edu>]

Karen Schuchardt wrote:

>
> If I take the namespace out I can successfully match using
> <xsl:apply-templates select="//attribute-type[@id=$attr]"/>
>
> However with the namespace included in the ris element, the following
> does not match
> <xsl:apply-templates select="//ris:attribute-type[@id=$attr]"/>
>

I think you need

<xsl:apply-templates select="ris:attribute-type[@ris:id=$attr]"/>

at least that sort of thing works for me.

Wayne Moore

Re: problem selecting non-child elements when using name spaces

[Martin Gudgin <ma...@develop.com>]

This is a wild stab in the dark but...

Have you specfied xmlns:ris="ris.xsd" on the stylesheet element in the .xsl?

Gudge