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Andi · Guest

Hello,

maybe this is not quite a Delphi problem but I encountered it while using
TXSLPageProducer (and maybe it is related to this component):

I have this XML document:

<project>
<items>
<entity class="product" />
<entity class="other" />
</items>
</project>

and this XSL stylesheet (extract) for transformation:

<xsl:template match="items">
<xsl:for-each select="entity[@class='product']">
...
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

which should handle any "entity" node with class="product". But here, it
doesn't work, it gives me an empty node set.

What does work is this:
...
<entity class-id="1" />
...
and
<xsl:for-each select="entity[@class-id=1]">

i.e. renaming class to class-id, using a number rather than a text and
omitting the '...' around the 1. Why is this? Is my above XSL script wrong
(I found this formulation in several XSL guides)?

Thanks
Andi

Marc Scheuner · Guest

Jeff Rafter · Guest

It must be related to the component because your XSLT is 100% okay. When
you do a for-each without the select statement is bound to the current
context. So:

select="entity[...]"

Means select the entity in the current context (which is items). You can
explicitly root it by adding a single "/", or you can search all nodes
using "//". You should use "//" very sparingly though as it is death for
the performance of your stylesheet.

The full XSLT I used was:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="ISO-8859-1" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="items">
<xsl:for-each select="entity[@class='product']">
<xsl:value-of select="@class"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project>
<items>
<entity class="product" />
<entity class="other" />
</items>
</project>

The output was:

product

Perhaps there is a version issue-- do you have MSXML3 or MSXML4
installed? Are you using namespaces in your document? If you would like
there is a lot of code for transforming the document without the
component (but using msxml). Search Google Groups for

IXSLProcessor Delphi

Cheers,
Jeff Rafter

Andi · Guest

Now it works, but dont ask me why! I didn't change anything, and suddenly
everything is ok!
Thanks anyway.

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