why no matches past the "/" and no output?

[Thomas Kennedy]

Given

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="content.xsl" ?> <data xmlns="http://www.hp.com/dexix/content" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.hp.com/dexix/content content.xsd" > <content id="generalforms"> <label>General Forms</label> <header> <headercell>Name</headercell> <headercell>Description</headercell> </header> <datarow> <datacell> <link> <url>/downloads/forms/Cetificate.of.Medical.Necessity.pdf</url> <label>Certificate of Medical Necessity</label> </link> </datacell> <datacell>Certificate of Medical Necessity</datacell> </datarow> </content> </data>

and content.xsl:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:param name="id"></xsl:param> <xsl:output method="html"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates select="data"/> <!-- OK so far --> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="data"> <!-- never reaches this template --> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

It gets as far as the "/" template in content.xsl line 7 but it goes no further. In other words the <apply-templates> on line 8 finds no matches, and I get no output. Is it some namespace problem? Thank you.

[Paul Clapham]

Thomas Kennedy wrote:Is it some namespace problem?

Yes. Your "data" element name is in the default namespace, in other words in the "http://www.hp.com/dexix/content" namespace. But your stylesheet looks for "data" elements in no namespace, so it doesn't find any.

To fix that, change your stylesheet to declare the "http://www.hp.com/dexix/content" namespace and assign a prefix to it (i.e. don't make it the default namespace). You can use any prefix you like. Then change your stylesheet to search for "data" elements with that prefix, in otherwords to search for "data" elements in the "http://www.hp.com/dexix/content" namespace.

[Thomas Kennedy]

That worked, thank you! Namespaces are slowly coming into focus.