Embedding XML tags in XSL

[Anonymous]

Hello All,
What I am trying to do is that I have an XML document and I want to apply a XSL stylesheet to produce another XML document.
I have right xsl utput method="xml". Still my new xml tags which I have embedded in the XSL would not show up. I am using IE 6.0. Also I am using apply-templates select=..... and so forth. I do not understand why my xml would not show up.

Thank you very much in advance for your help!
-Amish

[Anonymous]

Need some help!
Thanks
Amish

[Mapraputa Is]

It should work. Maybe you could post your XML and XSL files (if they are not too long ) here for better diagnostics.

[Sumeet Pandit]

Dear Amish,
Post ur code to check it properly...Definately there will be some solution.

[Anonymous]

The following is the xml file AddLineItemReturn.xml

  
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Add_Line_Item_ii.xsl"?>
<AddLineItemReturn PONumber="2255" ItemNumber="1155" success="true">
<Date>
<Day>06</Day>
<Month>May</Month>
<Year>1978</Year>
</Date>
</AddLineItemReturn>

The following is my stylesheet Add_Line_Item_ii.xsl, as you will see when you apply the stylesheet to the above xml file, the TransactionReturn tags are missing, but if I insert an xml text and then TransactionReturn it works perfectly fine.

  
<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl :-o	 utput method="xml"/>
<xsl:template match="AddLineItemReturn">
<TransactionReturn>
<xsl:apply-templates select="//Date"/>

<xsl:text><InsertItem></xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@PONumber"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@ItemNumber"/>
<xsl:text></InsertItem></xsl:text>
</TransactionReturn>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@PONumber">
<xsl:text><PONumber></xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:text></PONumber></xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@ItemNumber">
<xsl:text><ItemNumber></xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:text></ItemNumber></xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="//Date">
<xsl:text><Date </xsl:text>
<xsl:text>Day="</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="Day"/>
<xsl:text>" Month="</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="Month"/>
<xsl:text>" Year="</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="Year"/>
<xsl:text>" ></Date></xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Thanks in advance for youe help!!!

[Mapraputa Is]

<TransactionReturn> thing works perfectly for me, so do <InsertItem> and other. The only problem in your stylesheet is how you generate Date element. XSLT has to be a well-formed XML and <xsl:text><Date </xsl:text> is surely not well-formed. There are XSL elements that you can use to add XML elements to output: <xsl:element> and <xsl:attribute> In your case it will be
<xsl:element name="Date">
<xsl:attribute name="Day">
<xsl:value-of select="Day"/>
</xsl:attribute>
…
</xsl:element>

And there is shorter version:
<Date Day="{Day}" Month="{Month}" Year="{Year}"/>
The whole stylesheet would be:

<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml"/>
<xsl:template match="AddLineItemReturn">
<TransactionReturn>
<xsl:apply-templates select="//Date"/>

<InsertItem>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@PONumber"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@ItemNumber"/>
</InsertItem>
</TransactionReturn>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@PONumber">
<PONumber>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</PONumber>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@ItemNumber">
<ItemNumber>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</ItemNumber>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Date">
<Date Day="{Day}" Month="{Month}" Year="{Year}"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

It works with Xalan transformer. Now all the problems with IE browser belongs to IE! Generally it's not a good idea to use a browser for XSLT transformation, because there are some compatibility issues. You can read this post for more information.
[ April 02, 2002: Message edited by: Mapraputa Is ]

[Anonymous]

Thanks Mapraputa You have been a great help.
This works like a charm. I was using MS IE to validate my XML and apply XSL. Also an interesting thing I found out is MS IE 6.0 also does not adhere to XML/XSL Specification. I always thought and Microsoft claims that IE 6.0 will adhere to the specs. But I guess not.
Once again thank you very much for your help!
-Amish