XML/XSL Help

HugeBob · Aug 2, 2006

Hello All,

I'm experimenting with XML and I'm working on an example I've made up.
Basically, this is the format:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Baseball.xsl"?>

<MLB>
<team name="Yankees">
<player last="Jeter" first="Derek"/>
<player last="Abreu" first="Bobby"/>
<player last="Giambi" first="Jason"/>
<player last="Williams" first="Bernie"/>
<player last="Cano" first="Robinson"/>
<player last="Johnson" first="Randy"/>
</team>
<team name="Red Sox">
<player last="Ramierez" first="Manny"/>
<player last="Ortiz" first="David"/>
<player last="Schilling" first="Curt"/>
<player last="Becket" first="Josh"/>
<player last="Varitek" first="Jason"/>
.
.
.
</MLB>

Basically, I want to traverse the tree starting from MLB and kick out
each team name. I've tried this XSL. But, it's not working:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl">

<xsl:template match="/MLB">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
MLB Teams
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFDD">
<xsl:for-each select="team/@name">
<xsl:value-of select="text()"/><BR />
</xsl:for-each>
</body>
</HTML>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Any direction will be appreciated. Thanks.

Martin Honnen · Aug 2, 2006

HugeBob wrote:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl">

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The correct namespace URI for XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 is
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform and not what you have (which is a
URI used in an outdated working draft before XSLT 1.0 became a
specification in 1999).

<xsl:template match="/MLB">

<xsl:for-each select="team/@name">
<xsl:value-of select="text()"/><BR />

If you are iterating over attributes and what to output the value then
you need
<xsl:value-of select="."/>

Joe Kesselman · Aug 2, 2006

You need a root template so XSLT knows where to start. Add:

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="/MLB"/>
</xsl:template>

(Or change your match="/MLB" template to match="/" and adjust its
contents -- specifically, the for-each -- appropriately.)

HugeBob · Aug 2, 2006

That worked! Thanks Martin.

Martin said:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The correct namespace URI for XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 is
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform and not what you have (which is a
URI used in an outdated working draft before XSLT 1.0 became a
specification in 1999).

If you are iterating over attributes and what to output the value then
you need
<xsl:value-of select="."/>

Martin Honnen · Aug 2, 2006

Joe said:
You need a root template so XSLT knows where to start. Add:

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="/MLB"/>
</xsl:template>

Why would he need that? The built-in template for the root node / takes
care of that:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#built-in-rule>

<xsl:template match="*|/">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

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