XSLT transform problem

[EwS]

I know very little about xslt.
Here's my .xslt that transforms xml doc A into xml doc B:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">[/URL]
<xsl:output version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="no"/> 
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <dXML>
      <RemoteUser>
	    <UserLogin>admin</UserLogin>
	    <UserAuthenticator>admin</UserAuthenticator>
      </RemoteUser>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="OrderCreate"/>
    </dXML>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="OrderCreate">
   ...
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

If my xml doc A contains a xmlns declaration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
<OrderCreate xmlns="urn:cidx:names:DRAFT_0012:ces:schema:all:5:0" Version="5.0">
 ...
</OrderCreate>

The xml doc B is not created right - it's missing the whole OrderCreate section:

<dXML>
  <RemoteUser>
    <UserLogin>admin</UserLogin> 
    <UserAuthenticator>admin</UserAuthenticator> 
  </RemoteUser>
</dXML>

If I omit the xmlns declaration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
<OrderCreate Version="5.0">
 ...
</OrderCreate>

the xml doc B does contain the 'OrderCreate' section.

It looks to me that the reason for that is the transform stylesheet is not finding a match on 'OrderCreate'. What can I do to fix that? Thank you.

 

[k5tm]

You have been caught by a very common error. XPath does not use the default namespace.

The immediate symptom may be solved as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"[/URL]
[COLOR=white blue]xmlns:indoc="urn:cidx:names:DRAFT_0012:ces:schema:all:5:0"
exclude-result-prefixes="indoc"[/color]>
<xsl:output version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="no"/>
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <dXML>
      <RemoteUser>
        <UserLogin>admin</UserLogin>
        <UserAuthenticator>admin</UserAuthenticator>
      </RemoteUser>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="[COLOR=white blue]indoc:[/color]OrderCreate"/>
    </dXML>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="[COLOR=white blue]indoc:[/color]OrderCreate">
   ...
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

However, you probably need to review the requirements of your solution so that you can effect a correct result which includes proper namespace declarations.

BTW, this is such a common problem that it was fixed in XSLT 2.0. See here for information on the xpath-default-namespace attribute.

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com