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XSLT transforms, Why are they so picky?

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indrora

26 Jul, 2008 - 07:23 PM

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So i'm working on an XSLT transform to handle resumes... kind of an on-the-job project because i need a resume.
So i've got this:

xml



 <xsl:stylesheet 
 version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 >
<xsl:output method="html" version="4.0"
encoding="iso-8859-1" indent="yes"/>	
<xsl:template match="/">

<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<meta name="description" content="the resume for Morgan Gangwere"/>
<meta name="keywords" content="keywords"/> 
<meta name="author" content="author"/> 
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="default.css" media="screen"/>
<title>resume for <xsl:value-of select="/resume/person/name" /></title>
</head>

<body>

<div class="container" >
	
	<div class="main" >

		<div class="header">
		
			<div class="title">
				<h1>resume</h1>
				
			</div>
		</div>
		
		<div class="content" >
			<xsl:for-each select="/resume/sections/section">
				<div class="item">
					<h1><xsl:value-of select="@name" /></h1>
					<xsl:copy-of select="." />
					<xsl:apply-templates />
				</div>
					</xsl:for-each>
		</div>

		<div class="sidenav">
			<xsl:apply-templates select="/resume/person" />
			
			<h1>about</h1>
		<xsl:value-of select="/resume/person/about" />
			
		</div>
	
		<div class="clearer"><span> </span></div>
		<div style="height:100%"> </div>
	</div>

	<div class="footer">© 2008 <xsl:value-of select="/resume/person/name" />. Valid <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer">CSS</a> & <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">XHTML</a>. Template design by <a href="http://templates.arcsin.se">Arcsin</a>
	</div>

</div>

</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="person">
	
	<center>	<h1><xsl:value-of select="name" /></h1>	
	<img src="{@picture}" /></center>
	
        <ul>
	<li>Email: <xsl:value-of select="email" /></li>
	<li>Title: <xsl:value-of select="profession" /></li>
	<li>Birthday: <xsl:value-of select="birthdate" /></li>
	<xsl:for-each select="phone">
		<li>Phone (<xsl:value-of select="@kind" />): <xsl:value-of select="." /> </li>
	</xsl:for-each>
	<li>Address: <address><xsl:value-of select="address" /></address></li>
        </ul>    

    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

and this to feed to it:

xml


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

    
    <?xml-stylesheet href="style.xml" type="text/xsl" ?>
<resume>

    <person picture="itsjoe.jpg">
        <name> Joe anybody </name>
        <profession>Programmer</profession>
        <email>spam@camalot.com</email>
        <address>123 Anywhere</address>
        <birthdate>6/6/04</birthdate>
        <phone kind="cell">1 555 542 3234</phone>
    <about>
        ...
    </about>
    
    </person>
    <sections>
    <section name="Mission">...
    </section>
    <section name="Interests">
        ...
    </section>
    
    <section name="Qualifications">
        ...
    </section>
    <section name="Experience">
    ...
    </section>
    <section name="Professional Interactions">
       ...
    </section>
    
    <section name="Previous work">

      ...
    </section>
    
    </sections>
</resume>

this transforms and displays in Firefox, Dies in IE and on both i cant get ANY sub-tags (such as <p> or <img>) to be parsed.
why

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Martyr2	RE: XSLT Transforms 26 Jul, 2008 - 07:42 PM Post #2
Programming Theoretician Joined: 18 Apr, 2007 Posts: 5,227 Thanked: 218 times Expert In: C/C++, Java, VB, VB.NET, C#, PHP, Web Development, HTML & CSS, Javascript My Contributions	Well remember that <p> and <img> tags are considered child elements of their containing elements. So you can access them through their parent element or easier way is to give them ids or names attributes and access them that way. I typically pluck them out by name, set them to a variable and then can use the variable in the rest of the xsl template definition. Or if you just want to render all in a given section you can use a template definition like... CODE <xsl:template match="p"> <p><xsl:value-of select="." /></p> </xsl:template> This will match all <p> elements and put their value (the text in between the<p> tags) and manually puts them in <p> tags for display. Just some tips for you.
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indrora	RE: XSLT Transforms 26 Jul, 2008 - 07:55 PM Post #3
D.I.C Head Joined: 25 Jul, 2008 Posts: 52 Dream Kudos: 25 My Contributions	Well i dont know what kind of tags are going to be shoved into a <section> tag. I may just do this: xml <xsl:template match="section/"> <<xsl:value-of select="name()" />> <xsl:value-of select="." /></<xsl:value-of select="name()"> </xsl:template> This post has been edited by indrora*: 26 Jul, 2008 - 07:56 PM
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Martyr2	RE: XSLT Transforms 26 Jul, 2008 - 08:14 PM Post #4
Programming Theoretician Joined: 18 Apr, 2007 Posts: 5,227 Thanked: 218 times Expert In: C/C++, Java, VB, VB.NET, C#, PHP, Web Development, HTML & CSS, Javascript My Contributions	All the more reason to know a bit more about what will be in the XML, enough to create a DTD, then code your XSL according to the DTD. That is the ideal situation but whatever works for you.
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indrora	RE: XSLT Transforms 26 Jul, 2008 - 08:19 PM Post #5
D.I.C Head Joined: 25 Jul, 2008 Posts: 52 Dream Kudos: 25 My Contributions	I'll write a DTD when i get the chance to. At the moment i'm trying to just not mess up my mind. Oh and one other thing, i've tried including the XHTML dtd into the document and it still doesnt work. Oh well...
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perfectly.insane	RE: XSLT Transforms 31 Jul, 2008 - 02:05 PM Post #6
D.I.C Addict Joined: 22 Mar, 2008 Posts: 558 Thanked: 46 times Dream Kudos: 25 Expert In: C/C++ My Contributions	The easiest way to deal with this is to add a default rule. Example: xml <xsl:template match=""> <xsl:copy> <xsl:copy-of select="@"/> <xsl:apply-templates select="* \| text()"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="text()"> <xsl:copy-of select="."/> </xsl:template> The default rule should have a priority lower than the rules that match specific elements, so that it will only be invoked if no other rules fit. Rule priorities can be manually adjusted, by the way. It might be even better to have the resume tags in a separate namespace for error checking purposes, as you can then have: xml <xsl:template match="ns:"> <xsl:message terminate="yes">Unexpected element in the ns namespace: <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>. </xsl:message> </xsl:template> This post has been edited by perfectly.insane*: 31 Jul, 2008 - 02:06 PM
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